Adventures with Chocolate: 80 sensational recipes is chocolate genius Paul A. Young’s first foray into cook-books, and, like his wonderful shops in London, it’s playful, inspiring, delicious and surprising. Cory Doctorow writes…
‘Young’s gifted touch with truffles, brownies and drinking chocolate have made his Islington store a favourite in London. And here are all of Paul’s secrets, laid bare in a superbly designed and printed book whose pornographically chocolated pages make you want to surreptitiously taste them (I tasted them. Tasted like clay-coated heavy paper stock). Paul’s recipes are easy to follow and are equal parts inspirational (he makes it clear enough that even ham-fisted me believes that I can make them) and aspirational (in reality, it’s a lot more likely that I’ll just pop in on the Camden Passage shop and buy another box). And his essay on how he became a chocolatier, as well as his essays on buying and preparing chocolate, are sensational.’
And apparently the entire first run of Adventures with Chocolate has already sold out, but the second printing is due in less than a week, and should arrive in time for Christmas.
