Totally Teabreads or Aroma

Totally Teabreads: Quick and Easy Recipes for More Than 60 Delicious Quick Breads and Spreads

Author: Barbara Albright

Teabreads are ideal for today's bakers. Also known as quick breads, they're easy to prepare, requiring no kneading, no yeast, and no long waiting time. Even more perfect, they're light-tasting and delicious, just right as a dessert or snack to accompany a pot of fresh coffee or afternoon tea.

This delightful collection includes recipes for both sweet and savory teabreads, with recipes that range from the traditional to the sublimely imaginative and new.

Sweet Teabreads: Banana Chocolate Chip Loaf, Blueberry Almond Bread, Chocolate Chocolate-Chunk Bread, Cranberry Orange Oat Bread, Fresh Pineapple Macadamia Nut Bread, Spiced Apple Raisin Walnut Teabread

Savory Teabreads: Basil Sun-Dried Tomato Bread, Cheddar Bacon Corn Bread, Tricolor Pesto Tomato Bread, Zucchini Cheddar Loaf

Healthier Teabreads: Applesauce Gingerbread, Double Bran Bread, Cocoa Buttermilk Teabread, Two-Tone Corn Bran Bread, Whole Wheat Irish Soda Bread

Complete with recipes for delectable spreads to accompany the teabreads, this irresistable collection provides dozens of easy, delicious baking projects to fit any occasion or mood.

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Aroma: The Magic of Essential Oils in Foods and Fragrance

Author: Daniel Patterson

A New Way of Thinking About Food and Fragrance

Turn a brilliant natural perfumer loose in a chef's kitchen and you get vanilla perfume, saffron, ginger, and blood orange bath salts, and a cucumber mist. Turn a brilliant chef loose in a perfumer's pantry and you get rose-infused steamed bass, peach-jasmine sorbet, and scores of other startlingly original recipes using floral and herbal aromas.

Aroma permeates every cuisine, from ancient to modern, in every culture and at every level, but what this pioneering cookbook, by chef Daniel Patterson and perfumer Mandy Aftel, makes evident is that aroma, not taste, is our primary experience of food. Without aroma there is no flavor. By focusing on aroma, we intensify all aspects of food, and immeasurably enhance the experience of cooking and eating.

While many cookbooks include some discussion of the use of aromatics in cooking, none concentrates on this essential link, where a few drops of a fragrant essence can make commonplace dishes memorable and good dishes great. Both the food recipes and the fragrance recipes in Aroma are powerfully alluring, whether it's a coffee cologne or an orange flower custard. Cumin vinaigrettes and lemon verbena mists waft off the page. Lavender makes a grilled steak sizzle while white ruffle makes for a haunting perfume.

Explicit information on ingredients, equipment, and terms and techniques complements one fragrance recipe and three food recipes for nearly thirty ingredients—lime, mint, green tea, black pepper, vanilla, and ginger, among others. This seminal work will open your senses to the aromatic, even sensual, dimension of food andfragrance.

Publishers Weekly

This rather precious cookbook contains two kinds of recipes: those for food, and those for making fragrances, with the latter occasionally used in the former as well as to perfume the body. With a few exceptions, such as White Truffle and Blood Orange Solid Perfume, these sound lovely. However, preparation of both types is complex. The use of essential oils in place of the actual materials in food seems unnecessarily complicated (e.g., the suggestion that readers "add a few drops of cinnamon essential oil to melted butter, then use that butter to make cinnamon toast"). Fragrances are equally elaborate: Coffee Cologne Spray requires four absolutes and six essential oils. The food itself is creative American, like Lavender Roasted Chicken and Mint-Infused Asparagus Soup. Patterson, of San Francisco's Frisson, opening in May 2004, writes competent recipes, although some call for expensive ingredients. Aftel, who creates custom scents, easily guides readers through production of such items as Ginger and Juniper Body Oil, although her list of equipment is daunting. The real question is whether consumers want to see recipes for Coriander and Grapefruit Body Oil and Crab Salad with Coriander Vinaigrette on the same page. Photos. (Sept.) Forecast: It remains to be seen whether book buyers will warm to the combination of perfume and food. An 11-city tour should help the authors introduce their admittedly unique concept and make it more user-friendly. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.