Created by the award-winning pastry chef at New York City's Chanterelle restaurant, this dessert cookbook offers recipes for a variety of sweet treats. Say the word "Chanterelle" to food-loving New Yorkers, and the first thing they will think of is not the once-exotic wild mushroom but the beloved, award-winning New York City restaurant that has been critically acclaimed since its founding. Kate Zuckerman, Chanterelle's pastry chef, creates exquisite desserts that draw upon her culinary travels all over the world and her vast experiences as a four-star pastry chef in San Francisco and New York. The Sweet Life offers not only detailed, delicious recipes for every kind of dessert from tarts and cakes to custards, soufflés, and frozen confections, but also in-depth explanations of methods and of chemical changes that occur in cooking, along with fascinating histories and descriptions of key ingredients. Zuckerman possesses the remarkable ability to create gourmet desserts that home cooks can actually craft in their own kitchens. Her warm, accessible tone will appeal to both the beginner and the advanced pastry cook. Whether they are making the Crispy, Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies or the Cardamom and Honey Pistachio Nougat Glace, readers will know they are in good hands. Includes Line Drawings and Color Photographs