Nathan Hodge

The Art and Craft of Chocolate: An enthusiast's guide to selecting, preparing and enjoying artisan chocolate at home
by Nathan Hodge

Lovely, tasty and educational – this book provides not only recipes but the history, types, processing, manufacturing and more about something so delectable and delicious that it may have been fought over in the past and kept secret as well.

I can see this beautiful book on a coffee table for guests to read or by the side of my bed to contemplate before sleeping. Who wouldn’t want to have dreams of chocolate?

The photographs are beautiful.
The information provided more than I knew going in.
The recipes sound interesting enough to try in the future.
The places it is grown that were shown in the book made me want to go visit.

I learned so much about chocolate that I did not know before and found myself amazed that something that looks so little like it would have anything to offer has been found to be so valuable.

Did I enjoy this book? Yes
Would I buy it for myself or to give as a gift? Yes

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group – Quarry for the ARC – this is my honest review.

5 Stars… (mehr)

An interesting and informative book regarding atomic tourism. It was a little light on some spots, and unfortunately a little dated (obviously not the fault of the authors). After reading the much newer book Command and Control if is easy to see how once the Cold War ended America did not and still doesn't know what to do with their nuclear arsenal. The plans if you want to call them that for using nuclear weapons if it ever came to that against the USSR were ridiculously scary. Some targets were targeted with up to 10 warheads. That being said what I think is now scary is that because the USA and Russia don't test these weapons anymore we don't really know if they still work (if you are against these type of weapons you probably think this is good and don't care if they work) but we also don't now really what happens in their non use like how they break down and is this so thing we need to be concerned about. There are still a lot of plutonium pits out their not to mention missiles and bombs. Are we opening ourselves up to a catastrophic nightmare?… (mehr)