Mini (Xavi Donnay) Offal While researching the Straits-born community

While researching the Straits-born community for this cookbook

and savory mini blue cheese cakes to soups like traditional French onion or an autumnal purée of butternut squash and chestnut

An excellent book for the knowledge of the basic principles of cooking as well as for the knowledge of food

The historical chapter that follows sets the stage by describing Jewish social customs in Germany and then offering a look at life in the vibrant émigré community of Washington Heights in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s

SIGNED by George Rector on front free endpaper

Mini (Xavi Donnay) Offal While researching the Straits-born communityMini is the first great book on contemporary pastry dedicated to the small format, a long awaited book that finally serves one of the most important pastry families. What we once knew as petit fours, traditionally served at the end of a menu, are thoroughly reviewed by Xavi Donnay to give them a contemporary air and explore their full potential, not only in the context of a restaurant, but in any other type of reality confectionery and pastry shops,