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Ace of Cakes: Inside the World of Charm City Cakes
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Item Description...
Overview
The Food Network star reveals the secrets behind Charm City Cakes bakery's unique and creative cakes and introduces the innovative team that can make any frosting-coated dream come true, in a full-color scrapbook that shows the talent behind the tastiness. 100,000 first printing.
Publishers Description
When Duff Goldman, Food Network's "Ace of Cakes," envisioned Charm City Cakes in Baltimore nearly a decade ago, his goal was to make wonderful cakes for friends and family. As word spread about his fabulous creations, his dream grew into a nationally renowned business staffed by a team of talented professionals, including musicians, artists, and creative souls with experience in architectural modeling, graphic design, deejaying, coffee making, performance art, dog walking, sculpture, painting and more. Aces of Cakes: Inside the World of Charm City Cakes is a celebration of the bakery that started it all. This colorful scrapbook is loaded with stories about Duff's early days as a graffiti artist turned young chef, his successes and hilarious disasters, and the amazing team he built step-by-step. Through candid interviews and profiles and hundreds of photographs, illustrations, and collages, the book shows how energy, inspiration, collaboration, and a bit of luck can conspire to help anyone achieve their creative vision. Of course, at the center of this stunning book are Charm City's Cakes. From the simple to the breathtakingly complex, Duff shows off some of the bakery's more unusual techniques and tools that shape their famous creations. He also offers a behind-the-scenes look at his Food Network show, shares his most incredible customer stories and requests, and reveals some of the bakery's favorite cake facts and tips—along with a comprehensive episode guide and a monster cake montage featuring seven years' worth of the bakery's astonishing cake creations.
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Item Specifications...
Pages 307
Dimensions: Length: 1" Width: 8.25" Height: 10"
Weight: 2.85 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
Release Date Oct 20, 2009
ISBN 006170301X
EAN 9780061703010
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Availability 11 units.
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 | Not what I expected but still interesting Feb 7, 2010 |
| Somehow, I was hoping for more cake-related material but this book turned out to be more about the people. Still, it was interesting and did provide a lot of information and inspiration. | | |  | Fun read for you custom cake fans! Jan 29, 2010 |
| If you enjoy Ace of Cakes, you'll love this book! It features lots of projects you'll recognize from the show and many we've never seen, information from the cake artists, an overhead layout of the Charm City shop, and more. Each page is different and fun - there's a whole page of Star Wars cakes that looks like the back of the vintage action figure packaging! We've had the book out in our living room since Christmas and almost everyone who comes over picks it up and talks about it... Great coffee table book. | | | | Ace of Cakes kicks ass!!! Get this book. Jan 25, 2010 |
| With a dash of drive and dedication, a pinch of wit, quirkiness and flair, and a sprinkle of talent and innovation you have the culmination of work of Duff and Willie Goldman, "Ace of Cakes: Inside the World of Charm City Cakes." The book highlights the many cakes they've put their hearts into throughout the years with a multitude of great color photo layouts. It delves into the genesis of Charm City Cakes as well as the television show, Ace of Cakes, taking us all the way up to today. It's also a good look into the lives of the artists and craftsmen/women who regularly bring us their masterpieces of culinary art and dry wit into our living rooms week after week, as well as the people behind the scenes who help bring it all to us through the magic of cable television. Now you can take them all to bed with you, literally, as my girlfriend has done with this book every night since she's gotten it. She can't put it down and if you're a fan of the show you won't either. So, whether you are just a fan of the show, mainly a fan of the culinary arts or both, then is a book you must to pick up! An easy and inspitational read for people of all ages! I highly recommend it! | | | | The magic behind Charm City Cakes Jan 18, 2010 |
One thing Duff makes very clear in the beginning of this book is that it is NOT a cookbook or a "how-to" manual. This is a book about the people that make up Charm City Cakes and how they all came to work there. It also talks a lot about the making and filming of Food Network's //Ace of Cakes//. There are amazing photographs from the cakes themselves, the bakers, and some of the clients. Each baker has their own unique story. Many of them were never chefs but had skills in another field that helped once at the bakery. If you've ever watched the show, you hear Duff say "So I hired some of the most talented people I know--my friends". And he sure has. Most of the people that work there he has known for many years and reading the book makes you feel like you've known them just as long. Duff was a devious child who didn't always have a creative outlet for his art. He tells the story much better than I can, but the message he sends is clear: follow your instincts. They are not just cake decorators, but artists. This would make a great Christmas gift for the fan in your family.
Reviewed by Jen LeBrun | | | | Amazing Book Jan 18, 2010 |
| Ace of Cakes was originally purchased for my 12 year old daughter who is a huge fan of the show but the book has been enjoyed by our entire family. Although my daughter is taking the time to read every single printed word (and completely enamored while doing so!) the rest of the family enjoys just picking up the book and looking at the millions of beautiful and entertaining photographs. Even my husband who doesn't bake, cook or care about food very much has spent a considerable amount of time perusing the colorful pages. My other daughter who is eight years old has had fun finding her favorite cakes and sharing with me the many unusual and crazy cakes she has found. I am waiting for my turn to read the book cover to cover. My daughter reports that the mini-biography of Duff in the front of the book is extremely interesting and has taken the book with her everywhere she goes "just in case" there is a spare moment for her to read it. She is literally hanging on every printed word!!! Even if you have no interest in baking, this book is thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining. It is by far the most interesting book on my cookbook shelf! | | | Write your own review about Ace of Cakes: Inside the World of Charm City Cakes
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