Field Guide to Cookies

How to Identify and Bake Virtually Every Cookie Imaginable
Quirk Books By Anita Chu

4-1/2 x 5-7/8 in; 304 pp ;
Paperback
Published in September, 2008
ISBN 9781594742835
ISBN10 1594742839

$15.95

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Field Guide to Cookies -- What puts the snap in gingersnaps? How do you bake the perfect pinwheel? What's the secret to foolproof friands? Discover these answers and more with Field Guide to Cookies, a handy pocket reference to more than 100 cookie recipes, complete with helpful baking notes and fascinating historical trivia (the first known brownie recipe was published in the 1897 Sears, Roebuck catalog!).

Field Guide to Cookies includes traditional favorites and exotic treats from all over the world—everything from spritzgebäck to madelines. Each cookie is photographed in glorious full color, with step-by-step instructions on how to prepare, bake, serve, and store your creations. With Field Guide to Cookies in your pantry, delicious home-baked confections are just minutes away!

Anita Chu is a graduate of Tante Marie's Professional Pastry program and a former baker for Bittersweet Chocolate Café. She channels her love of baking, writing, and photography on her award-winning Web site, Dessert First. She lives in San Francisco.

Adam McAlpine Clark is a professional baker, writer, and visual artist in Philadelphia.

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