Review of "Bittersweet : Recipes and Tales from a Life in Chocolate" by Alice Medrich, Deborah Jones

Dark Chocolate is my drug of choice. This beautiful cookbook gives the directions for 130 elegant recipes. They all sound yummy! There are 30 color photographs that give the recipe life and sets your own taste buds to quivering.

The good news is that this author tells us the darker, European-style of chocolate has a higher percentage of cocoa bean solids and less sugar.

Author Alice Medrich was the owner of a successful candy store in San Francisco. The name of the bakery was "Chocolat." Anyone in this area knows about the sweetest place to buy chocolate in the San Francisco Bay area.

Its a little more money than you might expect, but every page is a taste teaser that make the book well worth your money. Starting off I tried the recipe called "Fallen Chocolate Soufflé Cake." As my soufflés have always collapsed on me, I thought this is just perfect. The instructions were clear, and the results were a miracle of chocolate taste. No flop here.

For those of us who prefer dark chocolate, this is a perfect book if you need to put on a little weight. Yeah, right!