French Pastries and Desserts by Lenôtre

Available from Book Larder when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

More than 200 recipes from Gaston Lenôtre’s classic cookbook, fully updated for the modern chef along with spectacular new photography. Gaston Lenôtre, the legendary master French pâtis­sier, was revered for having made desserts lighter and more delicious; his techniques continue to influence pastry chefs in France and around the world. This new edition of the now cult cookbook—first published in English in 1977 as Lenôtre’s Desserts and Pastries—has been updated in collaboration with the chefs