I think I remember Ina Garten once saying that dessert is the most memorable part of dinner…she’s so right, dessert is the real deal breaker, the thing that takes an ordinary dinner and makes it wonderful or a good dinner and makes it outstanding.

Like most people out there, I’m a dessert lover, so I was thrilled to recently receive a copy of Michel Richard’s Sweet Magic to review. The name of this book immediately drew me in; after reading it, I realized just how appropriately named it is. What else but magic could cause a few simple ingredients to come together so harmoniously?…