One more use for summer squash

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	• Chocolate and Zucchini: Daily Adventures in a Parisian Kitchen Clotilde Dusoulier Broadway, 2007 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 48 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Amazing

Clotilde Dusoulier chronicles Parisian food at this website and her book with the same title. At just 27 years of age, Dusoulier gives us over 75 recipes and gives comments throughout. As a lover of scones, I was intrigued by her Carrot and Rosemary Miniature Scones! She also offers recipes for French classics, such as Beef Bourguignon and Pistou. And finally, we discover her recipe for chocolate and zucchini cake, which is divine. In fact, I just tried a variation (I had pumpkin on hand) and made cupcakes for my son's friends at school for his birthday. The children loved them! Food lovers, armchair travelers and Francofiles will love this book for the holidays!

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beautiful pictures

I took this book as my reading for a trip to NYC from Houston. Time flew by! There are gorgeous pictures-check out her blog too! I highly recommend this book and cannot wait to try the recipes :)

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One more use for summer squash

As a lo-carber by necessity (I am a diet-controlled diabetic) I'm always looking for hidden lo-carb recipes or recipes that can be adapted to my diet. This little book that radiates its author's personality has a few useful recipes and is an entertaining read as well.

Charming and a Keeper

I stumbled on Clotilde's blog several years ago and think it one of the best food blogs going. Given her talent, taste, and wit I knew a book by her would be good, but this is very good.

The book is a small format paperback, which is designed fairly well. My only hesitation on the format is the irritating layout with recipes being run on. That is, a recipe can start at the bottom of a page requiring the reading to have to turn the page to follow. Publishers do this to save space thus money. It is just a no-no for cookbooks in my opinion.

The Foreword (which is really an introduction) is written in a breezy and delightful style. Clotilde's charming and infectious personality shines through. The photographs are inspiring, although I wish that she had included one or two of her kitchen.

The recipes are very good--simple and interesting. There are some chestnuts with a slight twist. For example, Boeuf Bourguignon with chocolate. The recipes are well written and clear. This is a book one could easily cook their way through. And I do not think that can be said of many cookbooks. Granted, it is a small book, but I did not find one clunker in the bunch.

This woman can write. She has found her voice and a delightful one it is. Much thought and care has gone into the recipe introductions. This is not padding but inspiration to those reading this book to actually move into the kitchen and start cooking. Bravo, Clotilde.

Anne Bourget

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yummy chocolate recipes

This book is a great read as is anything to do with chocolate. Also a bonus of great healthy recipes. All round worth a 5 star rating.

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