Featuring an abundance of recipes including buttery baked vanilla French toast, ultimate vanilla cupcakes, vanilla snaps, nutty vanilla spread, and vanilla mojitos, this cookbook also covers the history and origins of vanilla.
Love Vanilla' Award-winning pastry chef and Food Network star Gale Gand considers vanilla the lingerie of baking: It's an invisible essential, the thing you put on before anything else; but when given the spotlight, it's every bit as sexy and alluring as chocolate'vanilla fans w…
"Chocoholics and vanilla lovers may never see eye to eye, but with award-winning pastry chef Gale Gand's new flip book of 60 truly tempting recipes--half featuring chocolate, the other half featuring vanilla--pleasing both sides has never been more simple--or more delicious. 16-…
The Spanish considered vanilla the ultimate aphrodisiac, the Totonac Indians called it the fruit of the gods, and the Aztecs taxed the Mayans in vanilla beans, using the beans as currency. In this colorful history, Patricia Rain explores the incredibly diverse effect of vanilla …
A history of the world's favorite scent and flavor looks at the diverse impact of vanilla on the worlds of medicine, psychology, politics, and food, tracing the history of vanilla through the centuries and offering a variety of insights, trivia, lore, and recipes.