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Author: Mary Goodbody
Creator: Chuck Williams
Publisher: Free Press
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

14 reviews
Sales Rank: 22697

Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 120
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 8.6 x 0.7

ISBN: 0743243676
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.862
EAN: 9780743243674
ASIN: 0743243676

Publication Date: May 6, 2003
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This books has it all! September 6, 2007
This is the perfect book for someone who is new to making ice cream. It has a great variety of recipes, from classic flavors, to new and unusual. Make sure you try the Green Tea Ice Cream. Delicious!!

4 out of 5 stars

Beautiful book and pictures April 11, 2007
4 out of 6 found this review helpful

but alot of the recipes I probably won't make. My favorite chapter is elegant ice creams, for holidays this year I would absolutely make the peppermint and raspberry. I adore the sauce/topping recipes.

If you collect recipe books as I do, this will make a nice addition, or perhaps as a gift.

4 out of 5 stars

Good introduction to ice cream making July 22, 2006
42 out of 48 found this review helpful

Pros of this cookbook: The photos are beautiful, and they cover most of the basic recipes here. Another great thing is that while a lot of ice cream recipes in other books I've seen call for corn syrup as a quick, easy-to-use liquid sweetener, none of the recipes in this book do. Instead the Williams-Sonoma recipes use honey, sugar, or simple syrups that you make yourself. I think this is a great thing because, personally, I hate the flavor of corn syrup. This book has more of a natural-foods approach, which I like.

Cons: Most of the ice cream recipes are egg-based. That's not a problem in and of itself, but egg-based recipes tend to be more involved and take longer to make than Philadelphia-style recipes that don't use eggs. So it's nice when ice cream recipe books include a good selection of eggless recipes which are easier to make on the fly. In addition, I made a couple of the recipes and was somehow disappointed with the flavors and textures. Somehow they just weren't as tasty as other recipes I'd tried. Also, the recipes go more for depth than variety - you get a few solid classic recipes, but not a lot of fun variations.

I prefer Bruce Weinstein's "Ultimate Ice Cream Book." While a lot of the sorbet recipes use corn syrup, and there aren't any color pictures, you get a vast array of recipes and variations, including super-easy Philadelphia style recipes. There are so many fun ideas in Weinstein's book that you are more likely to end up playing and experimenting with creating your own recipes. Williams-Sonoma's approach is a lot more regimented and you're more likely to end up just following what their recipes say versus branching out and making up your own.

5 out of 5 stars

Summertime Read July 7, 2006
9 out of 11 found this review helpful

Williams-Sonoma is widely known for producing high-quality coffee-table books that delight visitors and can sometimes even come in handy in the kitchen. Their newest book, Ice Cream brings together over forty fine ice cream recipes into one location. These recipes are perfect for any summertime gathering or glamorous night in with friends. Readers will learn how to quickly craft frozen desserts that will be so delicious, your guests will wonder how you managed to ever pull them together.

The book is also easy to use and employs a sidebar filled with essential ingredients and techniques that are necessary for each recipe. Again, Williams-Sonoma combines high-quality photography with easy-to-follow recipes to create a book that will quickly become any ice cream lover's favorite.

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5 out of 5 stars

James Droste June 15, 2006
9 out of 12 found this review helpful

This is an excellent primer for all forms of Ice Cream. I recomend this book. Those pining for the old Cooks Illustrated tome on ice cream should check out their latest Best 1000 Recipes. It has a great synopsis of their orginal tome on the subject.

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