Why
I wrote this book.
I think about chocolate every day. Not just as
candy, but chocolate has to be involved in some
part of a dessert...or it's not for me!
Apparently quite a few other people feel the same
way. These were so much fun to think up and
draw. Not the real thing, but
close.I edited and produced a calendar for
Barnes and Noble entitled: "What do
Women REALLY Want? Cats, Chocolate, Shoes and
Love!" Yes, it's a long title, but
isn't it lovely and true?
The
publisher at NBM loved the title, too. But he
wanted to do an entire book on each subject, and
he picked Chocolate as the first book. Good
choice!
Description.
The chocolate-brown cover is smooth, almost
silky. The publisher decided it had to be a
hardback, to be a real collector's item. Readers
often tell me it looks like a chocolate bar. And
in contrast, the pages are super-white.
There
are over 120 fullpage cartoons about ice cream,
cake, brownies, cookies and of course chocolate.
Some unusual quotations are also sprinkled about.
And the foreword is by the famous author of 9
cookbooks, Rose Levy Beranbaum. She had never
written a foreword before, but thought chocolate
and cartoons made this book special!
It
was printed in a limited quantity. Copies are
still available here, and sometimes on Amazon.
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