More than 800 pages of technical knowledge: not only many recipes and technical information, but also the means to build one’s way of working and developing through basic notions, tests, emotions.

All the fundamental themes are treated, from puff pastry to whipped mixtures, from choux pastry to biscuits, from basic creams to meringues, from leavened dough to cakes, from petits fours to praliné, from chocolate to pâte à bombe, from gelato to glazes, from soufflé to nougat, from jam to nut brittle, from candying to fried products, from alternative pastry products to savoury baking…