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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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Live from New York ... it's from my iPhone !!!
Gerard Mulot Pastry Box, original watercolor, 9" x 11"
Pastry chefs and I have always seen eye to eye...
They are the 'artistes' in the cuisine, with chocolate and sugar...
Of course they adored having their portraits on their own business cards. They really got my food art biz going.
When I received an invite to a screening of KINGS OF PASTRY I was thrilled.
It's about the 3-day competition of carefully selected French pastry chefs, sixteen in fact, all vieing for the much coveted M.O.F. or Meilleur Ouvriers De France award in Lyon.
As luck would have it, I went to Maine to paint and missed the screening, but they sent me the video and BOY OH BOY is it fun! The Guardian said,
"I never saw so many men sobbing at once"
"A culinary HURT LOCKER"
You get to see top pastry artistes pushed to the limit, racing against time and each other to make their super, fragiles creations. You see top pastry judges of France (PH included!) tasting and grading the contender's art works (16 desserts) and their responses. Full of suspense...catastrophes beaucoup...even the judges are in tears.
If you love French pastry, you MUST see KINGS OF PASTRY
Pastry chefs of the highest order are required to make many confectionary sculptures...
Usually made of sugar. These chocolate masterpieces were at the Salon du Chocolat last October. Now I have a better idea of the enormous effort that went into making them. Oh the torture, oh the sleepless nights.
I attended the Coupe du Monde de la Patisserie in Lyon in '94 - words can not describe the fabulousness of it all. If only I'd had my Canon back then. Last June I returned to Lyon for a macaron class. Instead I ate lunch at Paul Bocuse's Brasserie Le Nord.
Very chaleureuse/warm indeed..
Very much in the old French tradition of quality and simplicity.
Bien sur you know I had une salade...
And then the very traditional cote d'agneau for my main.Miam-miam
When I asked for the l'addition they said I was an invitee/guest!?
How I wished I had ordered dessert...something on the order of this elaborate chocolate chapeau...HATS OFF TO THE M.O.F. WINNERS
one of the most lovely ladies whom ever lived ~ Princess Diana. She was an inspiration. It was 13 years ago today that her life was cut too short on the streets of Paris.
I remember watching her wedding when I was a little girl. How I was in love with her dress and dream wedding!
This is one of my favourite photos
A wonderful mother
Carrying the iconic Lady Diana Dior bag ~ one of my favourite
bags of all time!
Her many good works
with Mother Theresa
May she rest in peace ~
Au Revoir! xoxo, B
You can follow my trip HERE. Not sure about my connection there but I am sure I'll be blogging!
Monday, August 30, 2010
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