March 2012
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Do You Have What It Takes To Compete? Ask...
Pastry Chef Heather Bertinetti (you’ll find her raising souffles at Crown on Manhattan’s Upper East Side) has watched and analyzed that sugary blight of a television bake-off program, “Cupcake Wars” (a Food Network production), like a sports commentator would a big game. After she identified each of the archetypal high-on-frosting participants, I realized she was both...
Shuna Lydon's Letter to the James Beard Foundation... →
If like me, you care, not only about kouign amanns, gelato, lemon tarts, chocolate souffles and the kinds of beautifully, composed desserts that blow your mind with their complex layering of flavor, but also about the talented people responsible for them, you will read Lydon’s post, and you’ll think about it. And, if you want more bittersweet food for thought, you can read her...
