title: Bittersweet: Recipes and Tales from a Life in Chocolate
author:  Alice Medrich 
description: In <i>Bittersweet</i>, Alice Medrich continues her mouthwatering crusade to educate chocoholics everywhere about her passion. With 30 years experience, first at her famous Berkeley bakery, Cocolat, and then as an award-winning cookbook author, there is little Medrich doesn't know about chocolate. And what sets this book apart from all others is her willingness to share what's she's learned.
zlib_text: _**Also by Dorothy Koomson**_
  
  The Cupid Effect
  
  The Chocolate Run
  
  My Best Friend’s Girl
  
  Marshmallows for Breakfast
  
  Goodnight, Beautiful
  
  The Ice Cream Girls
  
  Copyright
  
  Published by Hachette Digital
  
  ISBN: 978-0-748-11547-1
  
  All characters and events in this publication, other than those clearly in the
  public domain, are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or
  dead, is purely coincidental.
  
  Copyright © 2011 by Dorothy Koomson
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in
  a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the
  prior permission in writing of the publisher.
  
  Hachette Digital
  
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  [www.hachette.co.uk](http://www.hachette.co.uk)
  
   **Contents**
  
  Copyright
  
  Also by Dorothy Koomson
  
  thank you to …
  
  prologue
  
  chapter one
  
  chapter two
  
  chapter three
  
  chapter four
  
  chapter five
  
  chapter six
  
  chapter seven
  
  chapter eight
  
  chapter nine
  
  chapte