This chocolate cartoon book has only 2 ingredients: Cartoons, and Chocolate!
What Do Women REALLY Want? Chocolate! is my first book, and you know what they say about your firstborn!
There’s no other book with this unique combination of New Yorker cartoons and my fave subject, desserts.
Family Circle named it Book of the Month. Brownies, cupcakes, ice cream, it’s all here, except for vanilla.
How do you serve chocolate? Choose it? Present it? Cook with it?! Fudgey or cake-like? Perfect gift for the foodie, gourmand, or gastronome in your life. Handsome chocolatey smooth covers, with lots of reviews from food writers and critics.
Why I wrote these chocolate cartoons
I think about quality sweets every day. Maybe not consciously, and certainly not just candy, but chocolate is a part of my life, even if it’s just one ingredient in a dessert. Apparently, quite a few other people feel the same way, including editors, because I’ve sold a lot of cartoons about them, even to business publications!
Light, dark, or semi-sweet chocolat, madam?
Book contents. The chocolate-brown cover is smooth, almost silky, and in contrast, the pages are thick and super-white. The publisher decided it should be a hardback, to be a real collector’s item. There are over 120 fullpage cartoons about ice cream, cake, brownies, cookies and of course chocolate.
The foreword is important. It’s by the famous author of 9 cookbooks, now 13 cookbooks! Rose Levy Beranbaum, author of the wonderful The Cake Bible. I Now, Ms Beranbaum is probably one of the most famous chefs in the world. She’s in every cookbook library or gourmet collection, I’m sure. Even for me, an extremely amateur baker, she changed the way I combine dry and wet ingredients when making a cake!
The fact that Rose thought this graphic collection of cartoons & witticisms was so special that she wrote her first book introduction ever for it, is still humbling. :0
140 pp, 8″ square, hardback, $12.95.
ISBN 978-1561633838
You can find it on Amazon, or if you want me to sign it, and/or do an original, delicious sketch of something chocolatey in it, go to my Barstow Store page.
What Book Reviewers are Saying
Family Circle: Book of the Month Award! Her cartoons are a calorie-free way to indulge in chocolate and feed your funny bone. Check out her yummy collection.
Chocolatier Magazine: As a magazine devoted to chocolate, we recognize that almost everyone loves chocolate. …which is why we’re so excited about What Do Women REALLY Want? Chocolate! Barstow’s irreverent cartoons are laced with truth…With simple line drawings and limited words, Barstow captures the bliss, satisfaction, comfort and insanity that is the relationship between women and chocolate.
Philadelphia Inquirer: Now that both chocolate and laughter have officially been deemed beneficial to health, it only makes sense to team the two. That’s what Donna Barstow did in her debut book. Her cartoons appear in newspapers and magazines across the country…With simple line drawings and limited words, Barstow captures the bliss, satisfaction, comfort and insanity that is the relationship between women and chocolate. your funny bone.
Milwaukee Sentinel: Oh, Fudge.
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