num_pages: 400
description: Winner of the 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award (Baking and Desserts)A New York Times bestseller and named a Best Baking Book of the Year by the Atlantic  the Wall Street Journal  the Chicago Tribune  Bon Apptit  the New York Times  the Washington Post  Mother Jones  the Boston Globe and moreThe most groundbreaking book on baking in years. Full stop. Saveur From One-Bowl Devils Food Layer Cake to a flawless Cherry Pie thats crisp even on the very bottom BraveTart is a celebration of classic American desserts. Whether down-home delights like Blueberry Muffins and Glossy Fudge Brownies or supermarket mainstays such as Vanilla Wafers and Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream your favorites are all here. These meticulously tested recipes bring an award-winning pastry chefs expertise into your kitchen along with advice on how to mix it up with over 200 customizable variationsin short exactly what youd expect from a cookbook penned by a senior editor at Serious Eats . Yet BraveTart is much more than a cookbook as Stella Parks delves into the surprising stories of how our favorite desserts came to be from chocolate chip cookies that predate the Tollhouse Inn to the prohibition-era origins of ice cream sodas and floats. With a foreword by The Food Lab s J. Kenji Lpez-Alt vintage advertisements for these historical desserts and breathtaking photography from Penny De Los Santos BraveTart is sure to become an American classic.
language: English
title: BraveTart: Iconic American Desserts
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company