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Bittersweet: The Five Tastes of Dessert and Beyond (a Baking Book)

by Thalia Ho

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Dessert through the five tastes

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Dessert through the five tastes

Thalia Ho organizes this baking book around bitterness, sweetness, sourness, salt, and umami, considering how each taste can shape a dessert. The recipe selection includes examples such as Sugar Buns, Preserved Lemon Pie, and The Dark Side Roulade, alongside more than 100 recipes overall. Its framework gives the collection a clear subject: balancing and combining tastes in baking, with desserts as the place to explore those contrasts. The book is a companion and foil to Ho’s earlier cookbook, Wild Sweetness.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Home bakers interested in exploring flavor balance in desserts.
  • Cooks looking for a dessert collection organized around the five tastes.
  • Readers familiar with Thalia Ho’s Wild Sweetness who want a related baking book.

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The five tastesFlavor balanceDessert baking

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Book overview

From Thalia Ho, creator of the award-winning blog Butter and Brioche and author of Wild Sweetness, a lyrical and visually stunning cookbook of more than 100 enthralling dessert recipes, exploring the five tastes and how they transform on the plate and beyond.

In her follow-up and foil to Wild Sweetness, Thalia Ho explores the five tastes and distills their ability to transform desserts into something memorable. Bitter brings deep complexity, sweet tempers and comforts, sour surprises and brings things to life with citrus or tang, salt can offset or enhance, umami is strong and satisfies.

With gripping prose, deep reflection, and hauntingly beautiful photographs, Thalia shares more than 100 inspired and inventive recipes to elevate what your last bite can be--adventurous, otherworldly, and unforgettable:

    Sugar BunsSinged Sherbet MeringuesPreserved Lemon PieThe Dark Side RouladeCr
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