Advance Praise for Chocolat:
"Aleksandra has produced the most delicious masterpiece. With the perfect balance of precise techniques, unbounded creativity, and personal feeling, this book is a definite must-have for all chocolate fans." — Alain Ducasse
"Aleksandra is a passionate writer and storyteller. I love every one of her French recipes in Chocolat, which not only shows how the finest chefs in Paris make simple and delicious chocolate confections, but also features classic delights like cakes, tarts, and cookies for beginners to make at home. This book is a must-have." — Daniel Boulud
"Chocolat is deliciously dangerous. Aleksandra seems to have seduced the greatest French cooks into revealing their secrets for the most sublime chocolate mousse, soufflés, tarts, and more. And best of all, the recipes really work! If you love Paris and you love chocolate — and who doesn’t? — this is the book for you." — Ruth Reichl
Praise for Gâteau:
“Offers up over 150 French cake recipes, from savory to sweet, each one eminently do-able…wherever you are. Aleksandra really understands French home baking.” — David Lebovitz
“If, like me, you get a little giddy around French cakes, take a look at Gâteau. My copy has so many sticky notes that I can barely close it.” — Melissa Clark
“Channel your inner Parisian and serve simple, yet stylish cakes with these tips.” — Martha Stewart
“Delightfully charming . . . featuring beguiling illustrations . . . [the cakes are] unfussy and easy to throw together, and as delicious as promised.” — The Washington Post
"Goes beyond recipes to make a bigger argument about how ease and simplicity define French baking culture.” — The Atlantic
“A smart, charming new book on French cakes... Got an urge to bake and simultaneously submerge yourself in French culture? Gâteau will enchant you.” — The Boston Globe
“Crapanzano has the secret to confidently, casually chucking a cake in the oven while you pour yourself another glass of wine and get back to the table... In Gâteau, she shares her Rolodex of fantastic French cakes that you won’t spend three days psyching yourself out over.” — GOOP
“While the recipes are serious and many, the mood is every bit as playful and enchanting as the Paris afternoon of your frilliest fantasies.” — Fodors
“Want to make stunning French pastries at home with little fuss?... Flip through whimsical illustrations and charming anecdotes and learn how to make a simple gâteau sing.” — Epicurious
“Aleksandra nails what's so inimitable about the French and how they just casually throw together a showstopper.” — Edible LA
“Shares the secrets to culinary savoir faire in charmingly illustrated pages... streamlined recipes rooted in classic techniques serve as blueprints for myriad variations based on the season or what’s in the cupboard.” — Atlanta Journal Constitution
“Charming... endlessly adaptable.” — Jenny Rosenstrach, Cup of Jo
“Aleksandra’s fabulous recipes will have you wooing your friends with a whole range of sweet delicacies.” — Nancy Silverton, chef and co-owner of Mozza Restaurant Group
“Chic, charming, and delectable... Everything about it—delicious writing, lyrical illustrations, and the recipes for cakes simple and seductive—conspires to bring joy. Gâteau is enchanting.” — Dorie Greenspan, author of Baking with Dorie
“An utterly delightful compendium of simple French bakes.” — Garden & Gun
“I’m so into this book!” – Francis Lam, host of The Splendid Table
Praise for EAT. COOK. L.A.:
“In EAT. COOK. L.A., Aleksandra Crapanzano deftly explains the real reason we love to eat in L.A. restaurants: they have the best home-style cooking in America. The city's obsession with all things casual and healthy means that its chefs are dishing out seasonal vegetables with romesco, cornmeal pancakes with turmeric butter, and chocolate sesame cake, a wildly exciting sprawl of restaurant dishes you can cook at home. Better still, Aleksandra, through her wide-ranging curiosity and engaging voice, makes you want to race to the kitchen. Her stunning book captures a moment in cooking that we're all going to want to embrace--and preserve!” — Amanda Hesser, cofounder and CEO of Food52
“The L.A.-centric recipes you want right now! With chefs building on rich immigrant cultures, dynamic ingredient combinations, and bountiful markets, Aleksandra’s book showcases the recipes that make L.A. one of the most exciting places, anywhere, to eat.”
— Heidi Swanson, author of Super Natural Cooking
"Aleksandra Crapanzano has written a bright, informative, elegantly composed insider’s guide to the great L.A. restaurant revolution, which even a grumpy New Yorker can love." — Adam Platt, restaurant critic, New York Magazine
“Aleksandra Crapanzano's superlative new book, EAT. COOK. L.A., turns my sprawling--often unruly--city into a charming, quirky city chock-full of the best we have to offer. For locals like me, it's a book to be proud of. For out-of-towners, the stories, photographs, and recipes here will give you a wonderful sampling of what all the fuss is about.” — Nancy Silverton, chef-proprietor of Mozza
Praise for The London Cookbook:
"When I say this cookbook does justice to one of the world's most delicious cities, that's no small feat. Aleksandra Crapanzano deftly captures the pulse and vitality of London's new food landscape while honoring its culinary architects." — Dan Barber, co-owner and executive chef of Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone Barns, and author of The Third Plate
"I can't imagine anyone as perfect as Aleksandra for the task of capturing the amazing spirit (and surprises) of the new gastronomic London. A celebrated food writer in the U.S., she also happens to know our city like the back of her hand, writes beautifully, and has the wit and imagination needed to uncover the city's best kept culinary secrets, its variety, and its flavors." — Ruth Rogers, chef/owner of The River Cafe
"Thank you, Aleksandra, for The London Cookbook. I'm ashamed to admit having once avoided London as a dining destination at all costs — but equally proud to acknowledge that it has become my single favorite culinary destination, in no small part due to its remarkable community of hospitality professionals, many of whom are featured in this beautiful book. This winning collection of recipes will keep me yearning — and satisfied — between my trips to London!" — Danny Meyer, CEO of the Union Square Hospitality Group, New York
London’s favorite restaurants offering their favorite recipes: what a delicious idea! This is as much about the vibrancy of eating in London as it is a working cookbook. Great stuff!” — Yotam Ottolenghi, co-owner of nine restaurants
“I’ve had the fortunate experience of dining in many of the world’s greatest cities, but time and time again my memories of meals in London rise to the forefront. These meals took hold of my thoughts and my senses, and continue to remain vivid and clear months, years, and decades later. Aleksandra’s book is a wonderful ode to this incredible food, this fascinating city, and its remarkable chefs.” — Daniel Humm, chef/co-owner of Eleven Madison Park and The NoMad Hotel
“Aleksandra Crapanzano takes you by the hand, leading you on a whirlwind tour of one of the world’s great food cities – with irresistible portraits of the fascinating people who are changing the way we eat and recipes that make you want to run right into the kitchen.” — Ruth Reichl, former editor-in-chief of Gourmet Magazine
“Aleksandra Crapanzano’s celebration of the new, vibrant, immensely creative, joyful London restaurant world, of the best chefs behind it and their glorious dishes, captures so well the spirit and the flavors that have made the city a real capital of food.” — Claudia Roden, author of The New Book of Middle Eastern Food