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Holiday Desserts in Pictures

15norriseps — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 03:10:48 +0000

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 Continue Reading

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S’mores in the USA

15norriseps — Sun, 03 Jul 2016 20:28:17 +0000

In Jackie’s new book Our Great Big Backyard about childhood adventures in America’s national parks (writers Laura Bush & Jenna Bush Hager), s’mores figure as one of the great rewards of camping and getting into the wilderness. No argument from me, or from one of the nation’s top chocolatiers, Michael Recchiuti of Recchiuti Confections in San Continue Reading

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I Left My Chocolate in San Francisco

15norriseps — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 22:15:24 +0000

No I didn’t. I never leave my chocolate anywhere. But someday I will leave my chocolate in San Francisco so I can go back and get it. You probably already know that that this is the ultimate food town because of the local farmers who populate thriving markets like the famous one at the waterfront Continue Reading

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Fudge Brownies & Dancer-size Desserts

15norriseps — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 22:52:39 +0000

While writing grants and brochure copy for the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, I meet a lot of dancers. Most staffers have trained in studios as the athlete/artists that all dancers are. They are disciplined and they don’t complain about hours, workload, conditions, nothing. Never in my 30 + years of office life have Continue Reading

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Sachertorte mit globalism in Vienna

15norriseps — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 17:21:05 +0000

I know, I know…Vienna has always been a cosmopolitan city. But we approached it as a dessert capital – a singular exemplar; a province of old-world excellence. If other discoveries awaited us in this city, we didn’t care. While Vienna delivered on its culinary promise, we could not ignore how it asserted itself as a Continue Reading

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Winter Maple in Eastern Canada and New England

15norriseps — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 22:40:19 +0000

One thing to remember when you visit Canada or New England: March is a winter month. March is not spring. March is nothing even close to spring. It is ice-locked and raw blue-white. Still deep and silent inside the trees are the seeds and sap of hope. Eventually, they will bubble up. The harvest begins Continue Reading

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All Wrapped Up in Quebec

15norriseps — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 04:38:45 +0000

Toy soldiers, trains, presents, chocolate, bows – all fine stuff of childhood. Mass-marketers understand this and often sell us charmingly quaint packaging with nothing but chalk-like chocolate inside. In Quebec, roadsigns led me up a steep hill to a mini-chocolate factory guarded by this guy: I feared the worst. Chunky sentry like these are cherished Continue Reading

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Chocolate Bliss Imperfection

15norriseps — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:33:46 +0000

This is one of my favorite photos from my first cookbook Chocolate Bliss. I arrived at photographer @jennifermartine’s San Francisco studio after a hectic food convention with only a few chocolates left, and here they are – dinged and bruised – yet they convey forgiven beauty of the dark and imperfect. Can we talk about the Continue Reading

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