Top pastry chefs share their experiences, offer advice on training, career development, and dessert trends, and include favorite recipes

Features recipes for such desserts as passion fruit sorbet, guava creme brulee, key lime custard cakes, and Asian pear-banana coffee cake

These desserts evolve from classical pastry techniques, but focus on flavor and the artistry of composition. Included is coverage of how to buy, store, and prepare flavorful organic fruits and nuts most effectively. Clear, step-by-step instructions and how-to illustrations demonstrate all aspects of sophisticated techniques such as making caramel sugar cages, assembling timbales, and caramelizing creme brul?e.