Café Pouchkine :: Emmanuel Ryon’s Pavlova
One day, last May, I got an email from Café Pouchkine. Chef pâtissier, Emmanuel Ryon, wanted to know if I could come in and check out their pastry lab in Montreuil, just outside of Paris. I’d requested an audience with his majesty a month or two prior but was told the master was extremely busy
Paris Pâtisseries :: Great or The Greatest?
I was shocked last week to see that Paris Pâtisseries had been nominated in Saveur.com’s 2012 Best Food Blog Awards. Apparently their editorial team reviewed 40,000 sites, submitted by their readers, and whittled those down to six sites in sixteen categories. Needless to say, it’s an honor just to be nominated. Seriously, I am flattered
Book Giveaway :: Mad about Macarons!
Sometimes recipe books just captivate too many people—the world over—and quickly exhaust their 1st edition printing. Such was the case with ‘Mad about Macarons!’, the now-famous bible of macarons by my friend, Jill Colonna. It’s just gone into its second printing, so I feel compelled to give a couple copies away! How might you win
Un Dimanche à Paris :: In the Kitchen, Part II
When we left off on Monday, after tantalizing you with various baked goods and sweet pastries from the downstairs kitchen of Un Dimanche à Paris, I’d taken you upstairs with me to see chef pâtissier Quentin Bailly in a cryptic scene. What could he have been doing? As it turns out, it was the above
Un Dimanche à Paris :: In the Kitchen, Part I
To my knowledge, Un Dimanche à Paris is the only pâtisserie in Paris where you can actually watch the pastries being made, inches in front of you. Just off to the left of the boutique is the glass-walled kitchen in which chef pâtissier Quentin Bailly, his trusted sidekicks Thomas and Maxime, and their assistants toil
