This blog celebrates desserts and what fun it is to write about them. Somehow, the adventure of discovering sweet and savory baking classics in their homelands has become the story of my life and now, a book: A Baker's Passport: Recipes for Breads, Savory Pies, Vegetarian Dishes, Tarts, Cakes, and Cookie Classics. A Baker's Passport is available for ...
In December, much of the world sees things the way I do. Artistic cakes, cookies, snow globes, chocolates, and vividly wrapped confections fill shop windows, screens, and billboards. They are everywhere. For over 17 years, I have explored the pastry arts, sometimes as a chef and sometimes as a gypsy traveler hoping to capture in ...
Gingersnap cookies, heart-shaped Christmas lights, and Glogg (hot mulled wine with Aquavit, raisins & almonds) fill the stalls along the Copenhagen's Nyhavn Canal. Pine trees, trinkets, bratwurst, fried potatoes, chocolate, hot candied almonds and dazzling Christmas ornaments will pull you in - powerful winter magnets.Tourists, couples and local families with bundled children mill around Nyhavn (New ...
Cannoli, the popular cookies of Sicily, began as Carnival pastries (circa 1500's) shaped as cylinders around wooden canes, dipped in hot oil, allowed to cool then filled with smooth, sweetened ricotta cheese. They have changed very little except now they are often made with stainless steel cylinders instead of canes and their decorations include roasted ...
Sugar Cookie Skulls from Leite's Culinaria Please do not feel obliged to put chilies in your hot chocolate in the interest of authenticity. "Mexican Hot Chocolate" with spicy chilies and Aztec branding is a fine trend - you can hardly miss it at Starbucks and beyond. But to some (full disclosure: me), chilies work best ...
Is it their silly, bulbous shape that makes us love them? Is it their unflinching shade of orange? Does their candy-loaded symbolism spark memory and ignite neurological pleasure centers? Do we even need to analyze a love so pure? Roasted pumpkins melt in the oven - their shapes collapse, their so-bright colors tarnish; they surrender ...
American pastry chefs can make Chocolate Chip Cookies (CCCs) from recipes long committed to memory. Many of us started baking as children and took command of the sturdy Toll House recipe (below) as soon as we were allowed to approach the oven. We might have evolved beyond this humble beginning - through cakes and classes ...
The University of Southern California's president, C. L. Max Nikias, recently addressed the rising cost of education. His defense included the increased market demand that universities function like the city-states of ancient Athens and Rome with infrastructure, housing, dining, myriad services, ethics, technology, independence and, for us, round-the-clock coffee shops. Oh yeah, and curriculum, too. ...
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