Bean-To-Bar Chocolate: America's Craft Chocolate Revolution: The Origins, the Makers, and the Mind-Blowing Flavors - Hardcover

by Megan Giller (Author), Michael Laiskonis (Foreword by)

Author Megan Giller invites fellow chocoholics on a fascinating journey through America's craft chocolate revolution. Learn what to look for in a craft chocolate bar and how to successfully pair chocolate with coffee, beer, spirits, cheese, or bread. This comprehensive celebration of chocolate busts some popular myths (like "white chocolate isn't chocolate") and introduces you to more than a dozen of the hottest artisanal chocolate makers in the US today. You'll get a taste for the chocolate-making process and understand how chocolate's flavor depends on where the cacao was grown -- then discover how to turn your artisanal bars into unexpected treats with 22 recipes from master chefs.

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This delectable tour of America's craft chocolate movement is the ultimate fulfillment for your chocolate obsession.

Author Megan Giller traces the journey from harvesting cacao pods to transforming them into finished bars with distinctive and complex flavors - including fruity, floral, nutty, and smoky. You'll then go behind the scenes to learn why artisanal chocolate from America's hottest makers is so special.

Giller teaches the nuanced art of pairing chocolate with beer, spirits, bread, cheese, and more, while master chefs highlight those irresistible combinations with recipes for decadent treats such as Ceylon Tea Fudge Sauce and Pop Rocks Chocolate Bark.

Author Biography

Megan Giller is the author of Bean-to-Bar Chocolate. She is a food writer and journalist whose work has been published in The New York Times, Slate, Zagat, Food & Wine, and Modern Farmer. Giller has written extensively about the food scenes in both New York City and Austin, Texas, and her blog Chocolate Noise was a 2016 Saveur Food Blog Awards finalist. She offers private chocolate-tasting classes, hosts "Underground Chocolate Salons," teaches classes at shops across the country, and judges at chocolate competitions. She lives in Brooklyn.
Michael Laiskonis is Creative Director of New York City's Institute of Culinary Education, and manager of its bean-to-bar Chocolate Lab. Previously Executive Pastry Chef at Le Bernardin for eight years, he was awarded Outstanding Pastry Chef in 2007 by the James Beard Foundation, and in 2014 the International Association of Culinary Professionals tapped him as its 'Culinary Professional of the Year'.