"Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
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> JMF wrote:
>
> > "Stuart S. Berr" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > > Does anyone have good recipes or recommendations for cookbooks for
> > > making chocolate from nibs?
> >
> > I have just acquired the book "Bittersweet" by Alice Medrich.
> > I haven't really had a good look at it, but I've noticed she talks
> > about nibs (I'd never even heard of them before) and has
> > recipes involving them. In any case, the book seems to be
> > well worth buying from what I've seen so far.
>
> But does she discuss making chocolate from nibs?
> Somehow, I doubt it. That's a specialized industrial
> operation, like making penicillin or TV picture tubes.

I checked again and of course you are right, she does not discuss actually
making chocolate. But, she does discuss them a lot and their uses in
recipes, and includes a number of these recipes.

John