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Food52 Genius Desserts Hardcover – 1 September 2018
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- Print length288 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherTen Speed Press
- Publication date1 September 2018
- Dimensions21.18 x 3.33 x 26.14 cm
- ISBN-109781524758981
- ISBN-13978-1524758981
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— New York Times
"Food52’s creative director Miglore delivers a solid collection of proven, must-have recipes for an array of desserts. The recipes are sourced from such expert bakers as Rose Levy Beranbaum and Stella Parks, and such chefs as J. Kenji López-Alt and then tested in the Food52 kitchens. The result is a cookbook that will become a go-to for enthusiastic bakers."
—Publishers Weekly
"It functions like a treasure hunt, with lovely things casually lurking within the pages … smart, delicious, understated and, yes, genius."
—Los Angeles Times
“When I first got this book in the mail and opened it up, the gorgeousness of it... made me pin myself to the couch for a minute and just go page by page.”
—Evan Kleiman, Good Food
"True to the name, the latest sweets-focused book in Food52’s Genius Recipes series is a collection of gems."
—Departures.com
"Consider this the indispensable baking guide, filled with all the clever hacks... you’ve been searching for."
—Jessica Yadegaran, Mercury News
Praise for Genius Recipes:
“Genius Recipes is the hands-down winner of the dog-eared page contest — because it instantly dismisses what might be the most important question asked by a cook confronting a new recipe. Namely, will this work? Of course it will.”
—Jenny Rosenstrach, New York Times
“This is my new favorite cookbook.”
—Michael Ruhlman
“I haven’t been so delighted by a recipe in ages, or been so rewarded for trusting an author.”
—Tejal Rao, Bloomberg
“In book version, Genius Recipes reads like an epic, culinary “best of” boxed set of recipes—the kind you’d actually make.”
—Jenni Avins, Quartz
About the Author
FOOD52 is a groundbreaking online kitchen and home destination. Founded by Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs--two authors and opinionated home cooks who formerly worked for the New York Times--the company celebrates home cooks, giving them everything they need in one place. That includes smart and entertaining stories about cooking and home, over 70,000 recipes, a cooking hotline, a suite of cookbooks, a shop with everything from stunning tabletop goods to the trustiest pan, and a million-strong community of fellow talented and curious cooks.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
The Genius Recipes column on Food52 started in June 2011 as a weekly showcase of recipes from legendary cookbook authors and chefs that we claimed—boldly! shamelessly!—would change the way you cook. You’d never truss another chicken, or simmer tomato sauce for hours, or feel intimidated by baking bread or making piecrust again.
And we learned nothing from our hubris, because the recipes indeed took hold and found new life, virtually on their own. The conversations around them grew, with readers exchanging pointers in the comments sections and on social media. Tips for more genius recipes kept pouring in. In 2015, Genius Recipes became a cookbook, which then became a New York Times best seller. The world of Genius Recipes had become a force unto itself, one of the internet’s most generous water coolers. I have been the lucky one who gets to keep showing up and filling the cooler.
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This time around, I asked the Food52 community for their lifelong favorites and reached out to home bakers, food editors, test-kitchen directors, and pastry chefs I thought might have strong opinions on the matter. I’ve thanked the ones whose recipe tips landed in the book on page 267, but many more generously shared their wisdom and time, enhancing the collection in ways big and small. I spent more than a year testing, retesting, and gathering feedback from opinionated tasters at Food52 HQ. (Want to know what their favorite was? It’s almost too obvious; see page 41.) In the process, we whittled this book down to a complete set of iconic baking recipes that will reliably turn you into a local legend. I’m proud to say that it’s a caliber of recipes that none of us would have ever been able to find without the collective experience of crowdsourcing, hundreds of bakers strong.
Here are the criteria I kept in mind and what you can expect to find in this book—right before you find yourself surrounded by Almond Crackle Cookies and Greek Yogurt Chocolate Mousse .
What are Genius Desserts? Most importantly, they must taste very, very good.
They solve problems.
Most are super easy. A few aren’t, but they’re worth it.
They surprise us.
They innovate and move our baking forward.
Best of all, the more you bake, the more making desserts can become a continuum. If there’s leftover lemon cream, you should definitely smear it between cookies and freeze it for a treat the next time you get home from work in a funk. Stale cake and cookies make amazing trifles, icebox cakes, and something chef Alex Raij calls migas dulces. Pie dough scraps turn into all sorts of brand-new treats—never throw them out. And I promise you this: every dessert in this book also makes an excellent breakfast the next morning.
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- ASIN : 1524758981
- Publisher : Ten Speed Press (1 September 2018)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 288 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9781524758981
- ISBN-13 : 978-1524758981
- Item Weight : 1 kg 290 g
- Dimensions : 21.18 x 3.33 x 26.14 cm
- Country of Origin : India
- Net Quantity : 1270.00 Grams
- Best Sellers Rank: #277,026 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3,181 in Food, Drink & Entertaining (Books)
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About the author

Kristen Miglore is the founding editor of Food52. Her writing has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Saveur, and The Atlantic, and she was nominated for a James Beard Award for Food52's Genius Recipes column. The column led to the Genius Recipes cookbook, which won an IACP Award and became a New York Times bestseller, and Genius Desserts, also an IACP Award winner. Along with the decade-strong column, Kristen now produces a Webby-nominated Genius video series from her home in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lives and cooks with her husband-slash-cameraperson and favorite cooking teacher, her young daughter.
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But that won't be the only one. Next I try the Almond Thank You Cake. I have a feeling that recipe will also be a winner.
And they aren't just good recipes, they're good *really interesting* recipes. They're creative. They seem like they are done by people who know *a lot more than I do* about food. And yet my first impression is, I will not need to hire Himalayan sherpas to hunt down exotic ingredients for me. The ingredients look pretty reasonable, but the combinations are very interesting.
If I lived to be a thousand, I would never have invented Buckwheat and Cocoa Nibs cookies, and after tasting the first one they are already one of favorite things ever. I think this might be a really good book.
I'll come back & update....
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*Second* recipe is a big winner.
OK, I made the Almond Cake, and it is really incredible.
It behaved *exactly* as they said it would, it tastes great, looks great -- just like the picture -- and once again, the only slightly unusual ingredient was almond paste, which was easy to find at my grocery store. (I remember looking at a (very different) cookbook a year ago and thinking "OK, so where do I get, um, sumac? And pomegranate molasses?" If I ask for pomegranate molasses at my grocery store, I think they will call the cops.)
I am deliberately choosing the plainer-looking recipes in the book, and there are a good number of them. What I mean is -- I am tired of deserts that are (or should be) called names like "Diabetic Stroke Chocolate Sugar Bombs". I like chocolate as much as the next guy. More, maybe. The picture on the cover of the book is of a chocolate cake. OK. But there is a limit to how much chocolate I need in this life, and I am approaching it. I want some deserts that taste -- more sophisticated, I guess. These first two recipes are delivering that -- while being straightforward to create, and the *recipes work right*.
OK! Two home runs in a row. Favorite dessert book ever. Could a dessert book win the Nobel Peace Prize? Let's make it happen.
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