Frank Haasnoot, a renowned Dutch master chef, has published his first book titled "Prisma". The book uses color as a central theme, with each of the six chapters dedicated to a different color - white, yellow, green, red, purple, and black. Haasnoot chose these colors to represent different aspects of his work in pastry and used them to tie together many of his signature creations. Through "Prisma", Frank Haasnoot shares his artistic pastries and desserts as well as recipes, techniques, and advice to encourage an open and creative approach to the craft.
Frank Haasnoot, a renowned Dutch master chef, has published his first book titled "Prisma". The book uses color as a central theme, with each of the six chapters dedicated to a different color - white, yellow, green, red, purple, and black. Haasnoot chose these colors to represent different aspects of his work in pastry and used them to tie together many of his signature creations. Through "Prisma", Frank Haasnoot shares his artistic pastries and desserts as well as recipes, techniques, and advice to encourage an open and creative approach to the craft.
Frank Haasnoot, a renowned Dutch master chef, has published his first book titled "Prisma". The book uses color as a central theme, with each of the six chapters dedicated to a different color - white, yellow, green, red, purple, and black. Haasnoot chose these colors to represent different aspects of his work in pastry and used them to tie together many of his signature creations. Through "Prisma", Frank Haasnoot shares his artistic pastries and desserts as well as recipes, techniques, and advice to encourage an open and creative approach to the craft.
Frank Haasnoot, a renowned Dutch master chef, has published his first book titled "Prisma". The book uses color as a central theme, with each of the six chapters dedicated to a different color - white, yellow, green, red, purple, and black. Haasnoot chose these colors to represent different aspects of his work in pastry and used them to tie together many of his signature creations. Through "Prisma", Frank Haasnoot shares his artistic pastries and desserts as well as recipes, techniques, and advice to encourage an open and creative approach to the craft.
presents Prisma, his first book, published by so good.. magazine ‘I always tell myself to keep an open mind, to take Then a title had to be chosen. ‘Rainbow’ or ‘Colorful’ were everything in perspective and to be playful.’ In this spirit, quickly rejected because they sounded too juvenile. And the well-known and renowned Dutch chef Frank Haasnoot the word ‘prisma’ surfaced, a term shared by the Spanish has been living the pastry trade intensely since an early and Dutch languages, and which identifies an object that age, almost a quarter of a century ago. And with this spirit, is capable of refracting, reflecting and decomposing light he has developed one of the most exciting projects of his in the colors of the rainbow. ‘It’s a strong word and the fact brilliant career, the realization of his first book. that it has of all these colors made it just feel right,’ says Haasnoot is one of the chosen ones, one of those who the author. A striking logo was created, and the six colors have achieved that when we see some of his creations, chosen were situated. we immediately know it is either his or an impersonator’s. It must be said that Haasnoot makes responsible usage of A style that has been built from his imagination and ta- color, with elegance and good taste, and without falling lent, with the noble intention of designing something that into a harsh or gratuitous and unnecessary excess. nobody has done before, by using his hands and his own Through his Prisma, Frank Haasnoot shows us his most resources. symbolic creations, and others that are all complete- While reviewing his plentiful production over recent years, ly unpublished, fresh, suggestive and full of life. It is the Haasnoot realized that color is an omnipresent element in work of a Creator with capital letters in which he shows almost all of his work. And he asked himself: Why not use the beauty of his patisserie, but he also shares his recipes, it as a common thread in the book? his techniques and his resources. Because, as he himself The next step was to establish the colors that would form confesses, if something does not go as planned, it should his palette, and how to combine them with the flavors he not be a problem, ‘if something happens by mistake look works with. Six colors for six chapters. White because of at how you can turn it into an advantage.’ its balance, elegance and lightness. Yellow for being the color of ideas and spontaneity. Red because it represents the necessary passion for a trade like that of a pastry chef. Green for being the color of nature and freshness. Purple because it symbolizes magic, imagination, inspiration, and creativity. And finally, black for its sobriety and nobility. WHITE YELLOW GREEN RED PURPLE BLACK PRISMA Author: Frank Haasnoot Pages: 332 Language: English version and Spanish version Price: 80 euros