On Sprezzatura and Chupa Chups
So the story goes, anyway, that when Enric Bernat, Spaniard and former employee of an apple jam factory, piped himself down on a barstool in Barcelona, it was the artist Salvador Dali who was sitting next to him. And it was also 1969.
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Tags: Chocolate Tasting
So what are we talking here, like, four months till Valentine’s Day? Worst holiday of the year for pastry chefs.
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Sugar
So you might be thinking to yourself, “didn’t he do caramel last time?” and you’d be right, gentle reader, quite right.
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Caramel
Demonstrably irrefusable. Ontologically delicious . . . caramelizing something is pretty much the phrase for making it taste good.
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Intro to Pastry
Pastry is that second of forgetting. It’s the short counterpoint to the rest of an all-in-all pretty awful day. It’s the unapologetic wasteful misuse of all your resources, a slap in the face of the daily grind.
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