Room for Dessert [Hardcover]

The definitive guide to perfect pastry from the acclaimed former elBulli pastry chef and his destination restaurant in Bali

As seen on Netflix seriesChef's Table: Pastry.

Will Goldfarb showcases a menu of desserts and fine pastry work at Room4Dessert in Ubud, Bali, with an approach inspired by local ingredients and stunning surroundings. In this, his first book, with a foreword by Albert Adrià, Goldfarb lifts the curtain on his creativity, revealing the processes that form the basis of his stand-out desserts, exploring taste, texture, and flavor. Home cooks can master basic recipes with the aid of step-by-step photography, then enter his creative world to see how staples can be turned into stunning masterpieces.

As seen on Netflix seriesChef's Table: Pastry.

We first met in 1999 at El Bulli. His prodigious intellectual powers were already evident - so, have been waiting almost twenty years for this book. I cannot tell you which I enjoyed more his recipes or his prose - one part Lorca's Theory and Play of Duende , one Orwell's Down and Out , and one part Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - I read it cover-to-cover in a single session. —Craig Shelton, James Beard award-winning chef

Explore the world of standout desserts inRoom for Dessertfrom acclaimed elBulli trained pastry chef Will Goldfarb through his destination dessert restaurant and cocktail bar, Room4Dessert in Bali. With a foreword penned by Ferran Adriá, you can expect the cookbook to feature sophisticated and challenging recipes and techniques. —Epicure Asia

An avant garde meditation on sugar... Goldfarb might be the Thom Yorke of pastry, a philosophical surrealist who dabbles in sweets... It's because of the... wonder, the soft imagery, the jokes, the humanity, even the debossed gold satin cover, that I couldn't love [this book] more. —Eater