Claudia Fleming is renowned in the pastry world, acclaimed for having set an industry-wide standard at New York City’s Gramercy Tavern with her James Beard Award–winning desserts. With this new edition of The Last Course (declared “the greatest dessert book in the history of the world” by Bon Appetit), dessert lovers everywhere can re-create and savor her impressive repertoire at home. As Fleming’s desserts embody her philosophy of highly satisfying food without pretension, they are equal to much more than the sum of their parts, and display her uncanny ability to match contrasting textures, flavors, and temperatures to achieve perfect and elegantly simple results every time.