What Do Women REALLY Want? Chocolate!

What do women really want? Chocolate! But you already knew that, right? Everyone knows the delicious anticipation of dipping into a fresh box of chocolates...and so it is with this charming collection of cartoons by New Yorker cartoonist Donna Barstow.

Chocolate is on the minds of many ladies most of the time, and we're lucky that cartoonist Barstow has been willing to share her own obsession with it. Why do women crave it, anyway? Why is it more important than love? How many uses can one find for it? These and other questions may be answered - or not - in these cool cartoons about women and their not so secret madness.

Ranging from "laugh out loud" to "I gotta send this to a friend," the over 120 drawings here are New Yorker-type cartoons with a distinctive girly slant. The pen-and-ink line drawings with wash are reproduced well in this medium-sized hardcover. Quotations on chocolate from authors like Mel Gibson to George Bernard Shaw are also included, and an amusing foreword by Ruth Levy Beranbaum (author of "The Cake Bible,") proves she's a chef who can laugh at her own delicious words.

Chocolate! is the perfect gift or collectible for foodies, cartoon lovers, and, of course, collectors of all things chocolate.

What do women really want? Chocolate! But you already knew that, right? Everyone knows the delicious anticipation of dipping into a fresh box of chocolates...and so it is with this charming collection of cartoons by New Yorker cartoonist Donna Barstow.

Chocolate is on the minds of many ladies most of the time, and we're lucky that cartoonist Barstow has been willing to share her own obsession with it. Why do women crave it, anyway? Why is it more important than love? How many uses can one find for it? These and other questions may be answered - or not - in these cool cartoons about women and their not so secret madness.

Ranging from "laugh out loud" to "I gotta send this to a friend," the over 120 drawings here are New Yorker-type cartoons with a distinctive girly slant. The pen-and-ink line drawings with wash are reproduced well in this medium-sized hardcover. Quotations on chocolate from authors like Mel Gibson to George Bernard Shaw are also included, and an amusing foreword by Ruth Levy Beranbaum (author of "The Cake Bible,") proves she's a chef who can laugh at her own delicious words.

Chocolate! is the perfect gift or collectible for foodies, cartoon lovers, and, of course, collectors of all things chocolate.

Chocolatier Magazine

As a magazine devoted to chocolate, we recognize and depend on the fact that almost everyone loves chocolate. However, we also understand that women have a particularly strong predilection for it, which is why we're so excited about What Do Women REALLY Want? Chocolate!, a collection of Donna Barstow's cartoons. Barstow's irreverent cartoons are laced with truth; while poking fun at women's love of chocolate, she legitimizes and even celebrates this adoration. With simple line drawings and limited words, Barstow captures the bliss and insanity that is the relationship between women and chocolate. Pair this book with a box of you-know-what and you've got the perfect gift for any female chocolate-lover!

Donna L. Barstow writes and draws cartoons for The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, Glamour, Harvard Business Review, Chicken Soup books, and many other interesting publications. She is the official cartoonist for Weight Watchers Magazine (no jokes, please.) She lives in Hollywood now, but eats chocolate from almost anywhere.

Rose Levy Beranbaum wrote the foreword and is the best-selling author of 8 cookbooks and star of a new PBS series called Baking Magic.