…I’d have gone for Serendipity 3’s Frrrozen Haute Chocolate. At twenty five grand a cup, it was just declared the world’s most expensive dessert by the Guiness Book of World Records. Go ahead and whip one up, I’ll be right back with my checkbook.
READ ONOne of my problems is that I tend to give away everything I bake before it occurs to me to eat it myself. Take yesterday. After trimming myself a couple of slices of that rosemary pound cake for breakfast, I passed both cakes (yes, I made two of them) plus the orange blossom honey to […]
READ ONHe’s at it again. Mark Bittman of the New York Times, who in cooperation with the Sullivan Street Bakery’s Jim Lahey set the world afire with no-knead bread last year (in fact almost a year ago to the day), has published another insta-bread recipe in this week’s Dining & Wine section. This time it’s no-oven […]
READ ONShe has a cookbook out, a brand-spankin’ new one, released just last month. It’s her first, called Dolce Italiano, and if the recipes it contains are like any of the others I’ve seen in the Babbo Cookbook, it’ll be well worth picking up. Her approach, at least to my mind, is very much in keeping […]
READ ONOr is that the other way ’round? Whatever it is, it’s the latest thing in the frozen dessert industry: “whole dessert” ice cream. It’s been coming for a while now, but you know whole dessert ice cream has really arrived when Baskin Robbins announces its seasonal line-up and fully two-thirds of the new flavors fall […]
READ ONNow here’s an interesting variation on the pound cake theme: an olive oil cake heavily dosed with rosemary, once again courtesy of Gina DePalma, pastry chef of Babbo in New York. It diverges from original pound cakes both in its choice of fat (oil instead of butter) as well as in the fact that it […]
READ ON…is the question Stuart Smalley asks his seriously overweight sister during one of her anxiety episodes in the film Stuart Saves His Family. I guess it’s all the talk of obesity that made me think about it. But on that note, why don’t we have some pound cake this week? There are a couple I’ve […]
READ ONAs I seem to be linking furiously today, I may as well direct you to this very nice article on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail in the New York Times. If you have a little time and a taste for whiskey, I highly recommend it. The fall scenery here in Kentucky is beyond belief.
READ ONMany Americans see healthy foods as “bland” tasting and are less likely to pay extra money for them. Also in the news today from researchers at UNC Chapel Hill: married people often gain more weight than their single counterparts. Lastly this late-breaking bulletin from Glasgow Caledonian University: chewing gum may help curb appetites between meals. […]
READ ON…or delizia as Mario Batali calls it, but we tend not to get quite that fancy around here at joepastry.com. I’d been wanting to try this for quite a while, and a visit by my parents-in-law this weekend provided me with the opportunity (and anyway, a lot of you out there teased me about my […]
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