The Art of French Pastry

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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF Copyright © 2013 by Jacquy Pfeiffer Photographs copyright ...

Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. http://www.aaknopf.com Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered ...

Pfeiffer ; with Martha Rose Shulman ; photographs by Paul Strabbing. pages cm “A Borzoi book.” ISBN: 978-0 ...

2013017643 Jacket photographs by Paul Strabbing Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson v3. ...

To my little sister Nathalie— tu me manques tellement ...

CONTENTS PREFACE | A Life in ...

Pastry INTRODUCTION | The Craft of French Pastry INTRODUCTION | Essentials ...

CHAPTER 1 | French Pastry Fundamentals CHAPTER 2 | French Pastry Classics CHAPTER 3 | Tarts ...

CHAPTER 4 | Cookies CHAPTER 5 | Cake and Ice Cream CHAPTER 6 | Sweet and Savory Alsatian ...

Specialties APPENDIX | Flourishes: La Cerise sur le Gâteau ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX ...

I • PREFACE • A LIFE IN PASTRY WAS RAISED IN MY FATHER’S BAKERY in a ...

small Alsatian village called Marlenheim. My bed was right above the oven (wonderful in winter, but not so great ...

up every day at midnight to tend to his dough. His was the schedule of a traditional French baker in the 1960 ...

ready to open at six—by which time a line had formed outside the door— and would serve customers until w ...

how many. She knew to set aside a large kougelhof for this neighbor, six cinnamon rolls for that one. ...