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It can be difficult to find truly indulgent vegan desserts -- especially chocolate. But for the first time, chocolate cakes, brownies, truffles, puddings, ice creams, and more are within reach: dairy-free, organic, fair-trade, and sublime. Author, baking instructor, and vegan powerhouse Fran Costigan has dedicated years to satisfying her sweet tooth while keeping it vegan. Through experimentation and long hours in the kitchen, she's recreated some...

Traces the history of chocolate from a drink of the Olmec and Maya and later in Europe to its popularity around the world today.

Henry Green was a boy who loved chocolate. He liked it bitter, sweet, dark, light, and daily; for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks; in cakes, candy bars, milk, and in every other conceivable form. Henry probably loved chocolate more than any boy in the history of the world. One day - a day that started off like any other day - Henry found that strange things were happening to him. He made medical history with the only case of Chocolate fever ever....

Information on storage, handling, and the fundamentals needed to create chocolate confections is clear and concise. Recipe sections include everything you need to know to turn the food of the gods into desserts for us mortals: cakes and cookies, creams and custards, ice creams, pies and pastries, sauces and beverages, truffles and pralines, dipped and molded chocolates, all adapted for the home cook.

A young widow opens a chocolate shop in a French village, transforming its normally austere inhabitants into unabashed sensualists. The event coincides with Lent, and the villagers' rejection of traditional self-denial angers the parish priest who declares war. A first novel.

This title will go through the process of how chocolate is made. It will be begin at the cacao tree farms where cacao beans are cleaned and prepped. It will then follow the cacao beans to the manufacturer where they are roasted, winnowed, and turned into delicious chocolate! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.

Traces the history and science of the cacao bean, explaining the art of cacao farming, the people who cultivate the beans, the methods used to turn the beans into high-quality chocolate, and the best chocolates in the world. Includes recipes for various chocolate treats.

More than four years have passed since Vianne Rocher pitted her enchanted chocolate confections against the local clergy's interpretation of Lent in smalltown France; since then, Vianne has renounced magic, changed her name to Yanne Charbonneau and moved with her two daughters to Paris's Montmartre district. There, Yanne embraces conformity and safety, much to the dismay of her increasingly troubled older daughter, Anouk. When Anouk becomes entranced...