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Collection of Sugar Pieces

By Paco Torreblanca

Collection of Sugar Pieces

This is undoubtedly the most personal and creative book that Paco Torreblanca has ever written.

With this 'Collection of Sugar Pieces', the master chef forges a new path in the conception of artistic pieces in pastry making.

Torreblanca's hands give sugar some magical and surprising shapes, between architecture and sculpture, transparency and opacity, lights and shadows.

New treatments, techniques and uses related to the different types of sugar: pulled, blown, casting, bubble, isomalt, pastillage...

Paco Torreblanca

World's Best Pastry Book

Paco Torreblanca

This book has been designed as the World’s Best Pastry Book.

Its outstanding success has led us to publish this second edition, which incorporates an English version besides the Spanish original due to its great demand.

Among other topics, this book includes desserts on plate, cakes, step-by-step recipes of sponge cakes, sugar and isomalt decorations, chocolate and chocolates, artistic compositions, traditional doughs.

Chocolate, by Ramon Morato

Best Chocolate Book in the World

Chocolate, by Ramon Morato

This book is a good example not only in terms of a good aesthetic work, but also because it goes deep into the most technical aspect of our trade - something not done before -, why we do what we do, and making progress in the development of a different taste, in a more organoleptic sense.

Next announces 2013 menus

'The Hunt' vegan and Bocuse d'Or competition

Next announces 2013 menus

Restaurant plans to expand to seven days a week in spring.

If there's some grand unifying theory stringing together Next’s 2013 menus, it’s the challenge of how a restaurant can cook under self-imposed limitations.

Consider the candidates from the Next brainchild in the running: 1700s Charleston (inspired after a conversation with South Carolinian chef Sean Brock).

J' aime Paris

Alain Ducasse's Culinary Guide to Paris

J' aime Paris

If Woody Allen's latest film, Midnight in Paris, was a love letter to the City of Light, then Alain Ducasse's book with its unequivocal title is the consummation of a lifetime's love affair with the city considered to be the most beautiful in the world.

With his attractive book, J'aime Paris, published by Alain Ducasse edition, Ducasse shares some two hundred of his favourite addresses in the French capital, addresses which include grocery stores, butcher's shops, fishmongers, cheese specialists, wine bars, tea rooms (Mariage Freres, of course), as well as those traditional French "brasseries" full of charm which date back to the mid 19thcentury.