About Daniel Nayeri
Daniel Nayeri is the writer/producer of The Cult of Sincerity. His novel, Another Faust, co-written with his sister, Dina Viergutz, is the first volume of their young adult series and will be published by Candlewick Press. He loves Pastry Chefing and Street Fighter 2, hates the word "foodie," and is an award-winning stuntman.Articles by Daniel Nayeri
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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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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