A review by jdgcreates
Bittersweet: Recipes and Tales from a Life in Chocolate by Alice Medrich, Deborah Jones

5.0

Queen, goddess, rock star of chocolate desserts gives us her memoir and best recipes folded into a rich batter of lessons learned and full-color photographs that make you drool first and bake later. If you want to know about Alice Medrich's career, she'll tell you about it here in her own voice. If you want a recipe for the absolutely BEST chocolate cookies on this planet ("Bittersweet Decadence Cookies"), then do yourself the favor of getting this book now. It's a tome of Yum-and-Wow-and-Holy-Chocolate and, along with her "Cookies and Browniess" book, deserves to be front-and-center on every chocoholic baker's altar!