Moosewood Collective - Moosewood Restaurant Book of Desserts

Recipes on have been excerpted from New Recipes from Moosewood Restaurant,
copyright 1987 by Vegetable Kingdom, Inc., with permission from Ten Speed Press, P.O. Box 7123, Berkeley, CA 94707.
Recipes on have been excerpted from Moosewood Restaurant Cooks for a Crowd by the
Moosewood Collective, copyright 1996 by Vegetable Kingdom, Inc., reprinted by permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Recipe on reprinted with permission of Simon & Schuster from Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant by the
Moosewood Collective, copyright 1990 by Vegetable Kingdom, Inc. Recipes on reprinted with permission of Simon & Schuster from Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home by the
Moosewood Collective, copyright 1994 by Vegetable Kingdom, Inc.

Copyright 1997 by Vegetable Kingdom, Inc.

All rights reserved.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Moosewood restaurant book of desserts / by the Moosewood Collective.
Includes index.
1. Desserts. 2. Moosewood Restaurant. I. Moosewood Collective.
TX773.M652 1997
641.86dc21 971234

ISBN9780517884935
Ebook ISBN9781101905098

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W E DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO THE SWEET FRESHNESS OF THE CHILDREN >AND YOUTH IN OUR LIVES, TO THE SWEET COMFORTABLE WISDOM OF OUR ELDERS, TO OUR SWEETHEARTS PAST AND PRESENT, TO THE SWEET TIMES TO COME, AND TO THE SWEET TOOTH IN US ALL .

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DESSERT DOESN T SEEM NECESSARY CERTAINLY NOT A DAILY nutritional requirement. We cant help but notice, however, that many people approach dessert with excitement and anticipation. Some of our customers structure their entire meal around dessert. Some even ask us to put aside a specific treat before theyve ordered their main meal. A few seem to think of dessert as something a bit sinful. And how many of us consider dessert a reward for finishing the more essential part of a meal?

Perhaps we hear familiar echoes from the past: Finish your broccoli, if you want some ice cream. Well leave a full discussion of the psychological aspects of the interrelationships between love, security, hunger, and dessert to the experts. But what we all know is that for whatever reasons, people love desserts.

We celebrate this impulse to make a meal, a daily ritual, finer by topping it with something sweet. We dont advocate eating sugary desserts at every meal, nor do we think its a good idea to overdo a good thingit is by eating sour, salty, and bitter foods that we most appreciate the sweet. Its hard to imagine a life lived without ever indulging in sweets. Sweet isnt just a sugary taste; its anything agreeable, pleasurable, or gratifying, and we hope this book will add to your sweet moments.

Desserts are very popular at Moosewood Restaurant, and weve been serving a new menu of homemade desserts every day for a quarter of a century. This cookbook includes some desserts that have remained constants at the restaurant for years as well as new ones that have made a big splash with our customers. Many are low in fat or concocted from nutritious fruits and quite naturally take a place in a healthful diet.

In our usual Moosewood fashion, we have assembled a wide range of offerings in this cookbook. There are plenty of useful, everyday desserts, chosen because they are tasty, wholesome, and light, and especially appreciated when they are simple and quick to make. Other desserts are spectacular enough to mark special occasions. Some are seasonal desserts that we might make only once or twice a year, yet we wouldnt want a year to go by without them. Summer Berry Pudding, bursting with luscious, colorful fruit, is emblematic of midsummer bounty. Pecan Pumpkin Pie, served in the autumn, reminds us of our connection to this wheeling planet as it tilts away from the sun.