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Lust: For Love of Chocolate is an exciting collection of 60 recipes created by pastry chef, Audrey Tan, who understands the behaviour of chocolate in warmer climates. She includes tips on how to handle and temper chocolate, and shares recipes for making irresistible biscuits and cakes, and handy sauces and creams. Full coloured photographs and clearly written steps accompany every scrumptious recipe, so you can indulge yourself in these rich and delightful chocolate treats without fuss or worry at home!

Audrey Tan is the pastry chef at Saint Pierre, a restaurant well-known for its innovative cuisine. Although she only began as a pastry chef later in life, after 13 years as a flight attendant, Audrey is today recognised for her talent, and has quickly gained a reputation as the one behind Saint Pierre's sumptuous dessert offerings.

Audrey trained at the Orange Coast College in Los Angeles, then took on a 2-year stint at the Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel, working under the pastry chef Jean-Francois Lehuede. She then returned to Singapore to work at Saint Pierre in 2003, during which she had the opportunity to train under Philippe Marand at the world famous Lenotre pastry school in Paris.