Hugo & Victor :: Macaron Mangue
I just want to slap people when they say Ladurée or Pierre Hermé make the best macarons in Paris. And I’d be just as irritated if they said Gerard Mulot or Carette – Jean Paul Hévin or Sadaharu Aoki. Yes, I think Ladurée has more really good ones than most others, at any given point
Hugo & Victor :: Hugo Framboise
I’d been reading Anthony Bourdain’s Medium Raw last week and got a good laugh out of him calling The Food Network “The Empire of Mediocrity”. It’s sad that people submit to Rachel Ray mooking her way through a no-bake cheesecake with store-bought graham cracker crusts or that they take the hacks of Cupcake Wars as
Hugo & Victor :: Victor Pistache
I shiver a little when I read print or online articles that tell people to visit shops who’ve garnered far more attention than their quality deserves. Stohrer’s the classic example. Going off conventional wisdom, you must have their baba au rhum. Sadly, when you finally get to the shop, you see that it’s a dumpy
Hugo & Victor :: Victor Framboise
Now that I’m back in the States, I’ve been trying to figure out how to unleash my storehouse of pastry photos and reviews upon you. The “problem” is that many of the shops I covered throughout 2010 and the first half of 2011 never really introduced that many new pieces, while shops like Café Pouchkine
Hugo & Victor :: Macaron Cerise
Not surprisingly, when you eat pastries all day every day, there’s a certain ennui that sets in. I have a list of, I believe, 39 exceptional pieces, which is less than 10% of everything I’ve ever tasted here in Paris. And even among that group there are only maybe 10-15 I think are consistently and
