Guides readers through each step in making perfect Parisian macarons every time.

Ptisserie made simple with easy-to-follow recipes and pictures. In Teatime in Paris! Jill Colonna shows you the easiest way to make many French ptisserie classics, while keeping it authentic, full of flavor, and creative. Not only has Jill cracked how the French create such tantalizing cakes but shes also discovered how they can eat these beautiful pastries and stay slim! Jill guides you through a simple step-by-step process for each recipe to make treats such as teacakes, eclairs, cream puffs, macarons, tartlets and many more pastries that youll find on this mouth-watering journey through Paris. This is a sweet walk around the City of Light. As Jill takes you from the easiest of treats to the crme de la crme, she points out some of the streets famous for the best ptisseries in Paris, adding bits of history en route and plenty of baking tips, making the recipe tour fun and accessible.

Learn to make delightful and delicious macarons from the master baker whose gourmet confections “rival those in Paris” (Zagat). Cuter than a cupcake and more delicious, the adorable macaron is très en vogue. Cecile Cannone has mastered the art at her lauded MacarOn Café, where these beautiful, bite-sized treats are “feather-light, at once crunchy and chewy, and distinguished by rich buttercream filling” (New York Times). Now Cannone teaches her techniques in this comprehensive cookbook full of classic and creative recipes. With helpful and inspiring color photos, this book offers everything you need to bake stunning macarons, including: Step-by-step instructions for baking perfect shells Simple tricks for making smooth, melt-in-your-mouth fillings Decorating tips for dazzling, artistic cookies Delectable flavors from chocolate and espresso to lemon and pistachio

Macarons are all the current rage, and this beautiful collection of tried-and-tested recipes allows even first-time macaron makers to try their hand at these luscious delicacies. This stunning collection of recipes adds a touch of magic to the macaron. From the subtle flavors of the perfect raspberry or lemon macaron to more adventurous combinations of violet and white chocolate or rhubarb and red currant, this book includes 28 recipes for these dainty and delicious treats. With a set of foolproof step-by-step instructions, accompanied by gorgeous, inspiring photography, this wonderful collection will ensure that even the novice chef can master the perfect macaron for any occasion.

Macarons, the stuff of bakers’ candy-coated dreams, have taken the world by storm and are demystified here for the home baker, With dozens of flavor combinations, recipes are structured with three basic shell methods—French, Swiss, and Italian—plus one never-before-seen Easiest French Macaron Method. Pick one that works for you, and go on to create French-inspired pastry magic with nothing more than a mixer, an oven, and a piping bag. Try shells flavored with pistachio, blackberry, coconut, and red velvet, filled with the likes of sesame buttercream, strawberry guava pâte de fruit, crunchy dark chocolate ganache, and lemon curd. Or go savory with shells like saffron, parsley, and ancho chile paired with fillings like hummus, foie gras with black currant, and duck confit with port and fig. The options for customization are endless, and the careful, detailed instruction is like a private baking class in your very own kitchen! All recipes have been tested by students and teachers alike and are guaranteed to bring the flavors of France right to your door.

In this engaging epistolary memoir, Howard Burton describes his early experiences of moving with his family to a medieval hilltop village called Le Pouget in Languedoc after years of running Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada. The Languedoc region is sometimes referred to as the “real South of France”— thanks to its largely unspoilt, breathtakingly-beautiful countryside, traditional wine-making villages and slower pace of life. This delightful book details what it is really like to move to France and try to build up a new life in a culture that Howard and his family thought they were familiar with until they encountered countless surprises, some positive and some negative…

“Beautiful photos that will make you drool. You’ll learn through all the step-by-step recipes and photos how to make your own taste of Paris at home.” —Make: Magazine Cute-as-can-be, buttery macarons capture the whimsy and elegance of Paris, where they’re traditionally served with tea or wrapped up in ribbon to give as a gift. But the secrets of making perfect macarons have long eluded home bakers—until now! In I Love Macarons, renowned Japanese pastry-maker Hisako Ogita brings her extensive experience to the art of baking macarons with fully illustrated foolproof step-by-step instructions. This charmingly designed guide is sure to have pastry lovers everywhere whipping up these colorful confections at home, using ordinary baking equipment and simple ingredients to create myriad flavors of perfection. “For those up for the challenge, Ogita’s book is the best possible preparation . . . Ogita’s love of macaroons comes across as magnificently sincere, as does her belief that perfection is within the reach of anyone with a mixer and a pastry bag.” —Boston.com “The recipes themselves are inspired, such as pistachio with bitter ganache filling and purple yam with chestnut cream, and there are lots of photos of the macaron making process, which is undoubtedly helpful for beginners.” —Fearless Fresh “Her book is the best because of the research and quality that it reflects on each page. She has refined the techniques for the home cook, and has majestically documented and photographed the steps to making a perfect macaroon.” —Cooking by the Book “A small, focused book by a Japanese pastry chef that fills a twee and tiny niche: French macarons.” —The New York Times