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A cozy collection of heirloom-quality recipes for pies, cakes, tarts, ice cream, preserves, and other sweet treats that cherishes the fruit of every season.

Celebrate the luscious fruits of every season with this stunning collection of heirloom-quality recipes for pies, cakes, tarts, ice cream, preserves, and other sweet treats. Summer's wild raspberries become Raspberry Pink Peppercorn Sorbet, ruby red rhubarb is roasted to adorn a pavlova, juicy apricots and berries are baked into galettes with saffron sugar, and winter's bright citrus fruits shine in Blood Orange Donuts and Tangerine Cream Pie. Yossy Arefi’s recipes showcase what's fresh and vibrant any time of year by enhancing the enticing sweetness of fruits with bold flavors like rose and orange flower water inspired by her Iranian heritage, bittersweet chocolate and cacao nibs, and whole-grain flours like rye and spelt. Accompanied by gorgeous, evocative photography, Sweeter off the Vine is a must-have for aspiring bakers and home cooks of all abilities.

Length: 256 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Page Flip: Enabled	Language: English

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Sometimes a cookbook comes along that seems designed specifically for the Instagram generation, a book that conjures a world of handsome ceramic platters, rustic linens and food that dances around the world, drawing inspiration from the flavors of the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Mexico. The dishes are perfectly imperfect, an edible "I woke up like this," and easy to picture cropped square in your feed. [...] A large part of what makes the book sing is how Ms. Arefi, who lives in Brooklyn but who grew up in Seattle, combines flavors in a way that is utterly modern and often intriguing.
--Emily Weinstein, New York Times

"In Sweeter off the Vine, Yossy Arefi has reimagined fruit desserts in her unmistakable style. These seasonal recipes are rustic and bold, often with an inventive use of whole grains or a thoughtful twist on the familiar. For instance, the Simplest Strawberry Tart is nothing short of a showstopper, while the Blueberry Skillet Cobbler with Whole Wheat Biscuits is easy enough to be a weeknight treat, and the spelt shortcakes make for wonderfully textured partners to roasted stone fruits. This is a vibrant debut.˝
--Tara O'Brady, author of Seven Spoons

"Sweeter off the Vine is ripe with fresh ideas, from fruit-filled fall galettes to summertime cobblers bursting with blueberries. Yossy's book is full of tempting recipes for using the best of the season...all year round!"
--David Lebovitz, author of My Paris Kitchen

Both thoughtful and balanced, Arefi's fruit-focused desserts are the perfect way to show off your favorite summer fruits. Make her Cherry and Chocolate Turnovers, Roasted Apricot and Buttermilk Sherbet or Coconut Cream Fool with Raspberries to make a good summer even better.
--Anna Painter, Food & Wine Magazine

"It's rare to find a cookbook that hits the mark with writing, visuals, and recipes. Sweeter off the Vine manages to captivate in equal measures via seemingly effortless prose, gorgeous imagery,
and most of all, Yossy's fresh take on cooking with the fruits of the season."
--Merrill Stubbs, co-founder and president of Food52

"Sweeter off the Vine is a beautiful articulation of gorgeous, seasonal desserts. The recipes are both accessible and nuanced--offering a balance of sweet and savory at all levels. Told with care and charm, this book is warm and inspiring, and invites you to reinvent the common dessert."
--Karen Mordechai, author and founder of Sunday Suppers

Arefi does a notable job showcasing the best of nature's bounty in this original collection, which is enhanced by vibrant, eye-catching full-color photos that will earn her a new following.
--Publishers Weekly

Sweeter Off the Vine fulfills all of our fruity dessert cravings.
--Teen Vogue --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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A cozy collection of heirloom-quality recipes for pies, cakes, tarts, ice cream, preserves, and other sweet treats that cherishes the fruit of every season. --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

ASIN : B010K2B8SU
Publisher : Ten Speed Press (22 March 2016)
Language : English
File size : 244744 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 256 pages

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The Renaissance Girl

What a great idea for a book - fruit is definitely better when eaten in season, and these recipes are original and interesting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 April 2016

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What a great idea for a book - fruit is definitely better when it's seasonal, and Yossy has divided the book into each fruit as it reaches its peak - there are then a few different recipes for each fruit. Recipes are inventive and tasty combinations, relying on the inherent sweetness of the fruit...

Spring
Herbs: chamomile honey panna cotta; fresh mint ice-cream with cacao nibs; lemon verbena olive oil
Rhubarb: rhubarb and rose galettes; rhubarb semi-freddol roasted rhubarb pavlova; rhubarb and rye upside-down cake
Strawberries: the simplest strawberry tart; strawberry ice-cream sandwiches with cacao nib poppy seed wafters; pistachio and cake with strawberries in lavender sugar strawberry and campari paletas
Cherries: cherry and chocolate turnovers; cherry and rhubarb slab pie; spiked cherry sorbet; cherry and poppy seed yoghurt cake

Summer
Apricots: apricot and berry galette with saffron sugar; small batch apricot jam. roasted apricot and buttermilk sherbet
Mixed Berries: blueberry skillet cobbles with whole walnut biscuits; crème fraiche and blueberry ice-cream; currant and blueberry buckle; blackberry and sage cream puffs; black fruit tarts
Melons: canteloupe and mint yoghurt pops; watermelon granita with chile and lime
Stone Fruits: nectarine and blackberry pie bars; smoked peaches with lemon verbena; spelt shortcakes with roasted stone fruit; plum pie with hazelnut cream
Raspberries: coconut cream fool with raspberries; chocolate celebration cakes with fresh raspberry buttercream raspberry sorbet with pink peppercorns
Figs: wine-roasted figs with whipped honeyed ricotta; soft chocolate and fig cake

Fall
Grapes: concord grape pie with rye crust; concord grape and plum butter
Persimmons and Pomegranates: jewelled Pavlova with cranberry curd; persimmon sorbet with ginger and vanilla
Apples: Marie-Daniella's apple tart; caramelised apple fritters; campfire crisps
Pears: a pear-packs chestnut cake; pear pie with crème fraîche caramel
Quince: ginger quince up-side cake; quince and pistachio frangipane tartlets
Squash and Pumpkin: butternut squash tea cake; caramel-swirl roasted squash ice-cream; winter luxury pumpkin pie

Winter
Cranberries: cranberry bread pudding; cornmeal and ricotta cake with cranberries; cranberry and pear pandowdy
Citrus: chocolate same tart with grapefruit; blood orange old-fashioned donuts; a quick marmalade with blood oranges and Meyer lemons; tangerine cream pie; grapefruit and Meyer lemon bundt cakes; preserved lemon ice-cream; rangpur lime bars with saffron; gingery lime posset; citrus almond thumbprints with summer jam
Dates: sticky toffee pudding with cranberry; browned-butter date blondies

Year-Round Essentials: all-butter pie crust; crème fraîche caramel sauce; crisp topping; pastry cream spelt quick puff pastry; a sweet tart shell three ways: all purpose, buckwheat, chocolate; vanilla extract; vanilla sugar

Seasonal Larder: poached quince; preserved lemons; roasted winter quash purée spiced rhubarb compote unsweetened cranberry juice

David Park

Making the most of fuit

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 May 2016

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I am a photographer and a cook, so can appreciate all the effort that has gone into this book.

Our allotment will provide most of the ingredients so I have a lot to look forward to.

Basavcela

Absolutely love this book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 September 2016

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Absolutely love this book, every recipe shouting to be made. Within a first week of getting the book I baked 3 cakes and they were all delicious and a bit different.

C Laneville

La fraîcheur et la saveur magique!

Reviewed in France on 5 September 2016

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Ceci est mon nouveau livre de recettes de dessert préféré! Toute la fraîcheur et la saveur des différents fruits de saison sont appréciés dans chaque recette! Chapeau à Yossy Arefi!

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Kat L

Well-written recipes -> outrageously good seasonal fruit-based desserts

Reviewed in the United States on 23 March 2016

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I really admire that Yossy chose a theme (baking with seasonal fruit), introduced why (her upbringing picking berries in the summer with her family, which has continued to influence how she cooks currently), and then highlighted 19 fruit categories in a wide variety of different desserts. Each category gets a little intro, with a gorgeous cover photo and advice on when and how to select the fruit at its peak.

Every recipe is itself accompanied by a photo, and as you might expect, they are all stunning. The recipes often incorporate whole grains and aren't too sweet - we're told she strives for a sweet-savory balance, stemming from the influence of her Iranian father's cooking. Since it's officially spring now, I thought the cherry and poppy seed yogurt cake & the pistachio pound cake (without the strawberries, but with the lavender sugar) would be two good choices for testing these recipes. Both were quite easy and quick to assemble, Yossy's instructions are clear and accurate, and both cakes tasted (and smelled) divine. I did use frozen cherries instead of fresh ones for the yogurt cake, because I don't have access to fresh, reasonably priced cherries currently, but the end result was still delicious.

After these, I made the brown butter blondies, because even though they're under "winter" due to the dried fruit/chocolate combo, blondies are amazing all-year round, especially ones with dates and dried cherries! Yossy's version of blondies very possibly outshines my standard go-to blondies from Back in the Day Bakery (which also have bourbon and chocolate chips, but include dried coconut instead of dates & cherries). As with the cakes, Yossy's blondie recipe is simple to follow, doesn't require too much time or effort, the measurements & timing is all accurate, and the end dessert is outstanding! I was able to bake all three of these desserts in one evening after working a full day, and I'm not necessarily the most efficient baker, so that's a huge plus for Sweeter off the Vine.

I'm really excited for summer to arrive so I can try her cantaloupe and mint yogurt pops especially, but almost all of the recipes included in this little book are appealing to me (except the rhubarb ones - I wish I liked rhubarb, but I just can't seem to enjoy it.) I am also really pleased with her small-batch apricot jam recipe, because I think a lot more people would make their own jam when the scary/extra-hassle step of sterilizing the jars is removed because the intent is not long-term storage, but rather short-term consumption.

I highly recommend Sweeter off the Vine. The photos are gorgeous and plentiful, the desserts are delicious, and although there are relatively few recipes (76 total), Yossy offers plenty of variations to give you a wide range of options. Almost all of her recipes are "unique", there's nothing here that I feel is a duplicate of other recipes I have, which is great, because I have a lot of dessert cookbooks. The twists might be small (yogurt, cherries, and lime instead of a standard lemon poppy seed cake), but they aren't something I've thought to do and they yield remarkable desserts. My only "complaint" is I confess to being a little saddened by the choice of fruit-based desserts, because I love what Yossy does with bread... I'm holding out hope it means there is a second book coming from her soon that will be bread-focused!

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