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Mast Brothers Chocolate: A Family Cookbook

Author: Visit Amazon's Rick Mast Page | Language: English | ISBN: 0316234842 | Format: EPUB

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"A beautiful, thoughtful cookbook that not only delivers their take on the tried and true with recipes for brownies, cupcakes, and truffles but also offers some innovative chocolate-based recipes such as Chocolate Meringue Pie... this book is a winner."—The Kitchn

We are forever enriched by people like the Mast Brothers, who have helped us appreciate the range of flavors possible in a single bar of chocolate.—Thomas Keller, from the Foreword

The story of Mast Brothers Chocolate is one of family and one of craft.—The New York Times

Crazy delicious.—Gizmodo

Mast Brothers Chocolate, made in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, since 2007, has been on the cutting edge of the craft-food movement since the start. Their new book . . . is filled with chocolate-focussed recipes, but it also illustrates how something as basic as a chocolate bar can become a culinary obsession.—Julia Moskin, The New York Times

Hands down the most beautiful packaging.—Time

The Mast brothers have written a book of delicious simplicity, filled with recipes so evocatively photographed and so clearly written, you will cook from it.—J.M. Hirsch, The Associated Press

For chocolate fanatics, there's only one cookbook that matters this Fall: Mast Brothers Chocolate: A Family Cookbook by Rick and Michael Mast. . . . Other cookbooks could learn a thing or two about how luxuriously simple recipe layouts can be from this one.—Eater

"It's a beautifully constructed book overall, with signature custom paper designs showing up throughout and gorgeous photographs, which tell the story of Rick and Michael Mast's bean-to-bar craft chocolate, alongside recipes for classic American desserts."—Brooklyn Paper

"The Mast brothers are poster boys for the Brooklyn craft food movement. Their story, which they tell beautifully through a series of essays in their new cookbook, is a great American entrepreneurial one. . . ."—Food and Wine

About the Author

Rick and Michael Mast are the co-founders, owners, and master chocolate makers of Mast Brothers Chocolate, pioneering "bean to bar" chocolate making in New York City. They were born and raised in Iowa.

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Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (October 22, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316234842
ISBN-13: 978-0316234849
Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8.6 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

My wife and I bake quite frequently (especially with chocolate), and own dozens of dessert cookbooks. Although I was previously unfamiliar with the Mast Brothers and their chocolate, I was intrigued when I stumbled across this new book in the bookstore.

The stories of the humble beginnings of their specialty chocolate business are really entertaining, and give the reader a great sense of how much they care about the quality of their chocolate, those that provide the ingredients for it, and even the packaging.

The photos are fabulous. I always prefer a cookbook that has photos of what the various recipes should look like. However, nice photos don't mean much if the recipes don't wind up tasting as good as they look! We've certainly had our share of experiences with cookbooks like that. I'm happy to say that after making several of the recipes in the Mast Brothers Chocolate cookbook, that's not a problem here! So far I've made four of the recipes, and they all came out amazingly well. The kind of chocolate desserts that when you take your first bite, you say, "Wow!" We've made Minnesota Fudge Cake, Marble Cake, Chocolate Cupcakes, and Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies. All of them not just really good - but truly great!

I admit that when I first started flipping through the book, I wondered if it was just a new, trendy hipster chocolate shop in Brooklyn, throwing some recipes together to sell some books (albeit a really classy looking one). However, after reading the stories, reviewing the recipes, and particularly baking (and eating) several of them, I'm really impressed! I haven't felt compelled to write a review before, but I just had to let people know how great this book is.

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