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.
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  _This festival will be the death of me yet_ , thought Samantha Sweet
  
  
  as she wrung the neck of a pastry bag full of chocolate icing. When she’d
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  heard of Taos’s Sweet Somethings chocolate festival she envisioned a lovely
  
  
  park-like atmosphere, with colorful booths displaying masses of delectable
  
  
  chocolates, maybe Willie Wonka music setting the tone—something no one from
  
  
  three counties would be able to resist. What she’d gotten was last-minute
  
  
  responsibility for a committee that was operating weeks behind schedule.
  
  
  
  
  
  An acquaintance of Sam’s had
  
  
  recommended that she become involved and Sarah Williams, the poor lady who’d
  
  
  let everything fall behind, had leaped at the suggestion with all the gusto a
  
  
  four-foot tall-woman with a bad hip could manage. Sarah was a dear older lady
  
  
  and they had become friends during the past few weeks—she was just not much of
  
  
  an organizer. When she practically begged Sam t