On Apr 15, 7:16*pm, blair > wrote:
> Hello friends
>
> For this monumental collection, Richard Sax devoted more than a decade
> to searching out and perfecting more than 350 of the world's most
> beloved desserts, "the ones made at home by mothers and grandmothers
> rather than by professional pastry chefs." Every uncomplicated homespun
> classic is he cobblers and crisps, cakes and cookies, puddings and
> souffles, pies and pastries, ice creams and sauces--nineteen chapters in
> all. Sax's versions are justifiably legendary among accomplished bakers:
> Traditional Two-Berry Buckle - Chocolate Cloud Cake - Bon Ton's New
> Orleans Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce - Reuben's Legendary Apple
> Pancake - Best-Ever Pumpkin Pie - Schrafft's Hot Fudge Sauce. Sidebars
> with every recipe--profiles of cooks, engaging recollections of favorite
> desserts, quotations from hundreds of literary works, and excerpts from
> old recipes--show how sweets are indelibly woven into the texture of our
> lives.
> Richard Sax has contributed to Classic Home Desserts: A Treasury of
> Heirloom and Contemporary Recipes as an author. Trained as a chef,
> RICHARD SAX was the founding director of Food & Wine's test kitchen. He
> was the author or coauthor of nine major cookbooks, cowrote a popular
> column for "Bon Apptit", and was a regular contributor to many
> magazines. The recipient of the James Beard Lifetime Achievement Award,
> Sax died in 1995.
>
> Thanks for all friends
>
> --
> blair

Wow, what great info- thanks! I like to read the side bars- the Alice
B Toklas brownie story