Brian Levy Book Signing

Please join us in welcoming groundbreaking pastry chef and cookbook author Brian Levy to Talbott & Arding, in celebration of his cookbook: Good & Sweet, named one of the best cookbooks of the year by the Los Angeles Times and Serious Eats.

Our pastry department will prepare 2-3 recipes from Good & Sweet and will feature them at our pastry counter. We will also bake one recipe as a taste giveaway as Brian signs copies of his book.

In Good & Sweet, Levy stretches his experience with sugar and sweetener substitutions across 100 recipes that ingeniously deploy fruit (dried, juiced, and fresh), nuts, grains, dairy, and fermented products to create sweet treats whose flavor is enriched by whole-food, feel-good ingredients. Recipes offer substitutions for dietary restrictions include a flavorful sweetener that transcends cane sugar, from freeze-dried sweet corn to coconut cream and apple cider.

Nick Malgieri says of the book, “In Good & Sweet, Brian Levy has brilliantly freed bakers from the slavish adherence to refined sugar.
Instead, the natural sweetness of both fresh and dried fruits is used to advantage in tempting and creative recipes.”