The Essence of Chocolate: Recipes from Scharffen Berger Chocolate Makers and Cooking with Fine Chocolate
by: Robert Steinberg and John Scharffenberger

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 383 pages. If you are into chocolate in any way, this highly regarded book is a "must have". There are loads of chocolate-centric recipes, written with the help of food writers, Ann Krueger Spivack and Susie Heller, and with contributions from many of the food elite: Michael Chiarello, Joanne Weir, Jacques Pepin, Alice Medrich, Nancy Oakes, Rick Bayliss, Elizabeth Falkner, David Lebovitz, Thomas Keller and so on. But this is more than a cookbook; it tells the story of chocolate and of the company, Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker, founded by John Scharffenberger and the late Dr Robert Steinberg. And it contains anecdotes on the Legends and Lore of chocolate. All illustrated with great photography.