Damgoodsweet: Desserts to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth, New Orleans Style (Hardcover)
Description
A city rich in food diversity, New Orleans is as much a city of banana cream pie as it is crawfish boil. In DamGoodSweet, pastry chef David Guas and food writer Raquel Pelzel delve into the rich fabric of the home-style sweets of New Orleans and its surrounding area. Through 50 amazing desserts, from traditional beignets, red velvet cake, and pralines to the lesser-known Roman chewing candy and calas fried rice cakes, Guas and Pelzel transport cooks from their home kitchens into the giant dessert gumbo that is New Orleans. Through instructional and anecdotal headnotes, plenty of great tips, and fun stories, DamGoodSweet is completely dedicated to the pastries and desserts of a unique American city.
About the Author
Raised in New Orleans, David Guas is the former Executive Pastry Chef for four of Passion Food Hospitality’s restaurants. In 2004, Guas was awarded the title of Pastry Chef of the Year by the Washington Restaurant Association. He is currently a consultant to restaurants and restaurant groups with his firm DamGoodSweet. David has appeared on The Today Show. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Praise for Damgoodsweet: Desserts to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth, New Orleans Style…
In an ode to his hometown, the pastry chef David Guas, along with the cookbook writer Raquel Pelzel, documents vivid food memories and classic New Orleans recipes in DamGoodSweet: Desserts to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth, New Orleans Style (Taunton, 2009). From loving descriptions of his growing up eating beignets at Café du Monde to recipes for a knockout king cake and a grown-up bread pudding drizzled with bourbon–caramel sauce, DamGoodSweet takes us on a culinary journey through the rich landscape of Southern culture. --Saveur
