Dessert FourPlay: Sweet Quartets From A Four-Star Pastry Chef by Johnny Iuzzini and Roy Finamore side table including their beloved pizzas

including their beloved pizzas

You'll have a hard time convincing your guests to leave if you serve them such desserts as Peanut Butter and Jelly "Twinkies" or Black-Bottomed Butterscotch Pots de Creme

and sugar-free

and nutrient density

Dessert FourPlay: Sweet Quartets From A Four-Star Pastry Chef by Johnny Iuzzini and Roy Finamore side table including their beloved pizzasConsider the strawberry: its familiar flavor and texture; its fresh, sweet smell. Now imagine the same fruit distilled and carbonated for a refreshing soda, slow roasted for a reinvented strawberry shortcake, made into a creamy strawberry ice cream and a chewy strawberry leather, and combined with coconut cream and crisp chocolate pastry. Alone, each dessert is a taste of paradise, but together this fourplay, or tasting, created by Johnny Iuzzini,