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Showing posts with label chocolat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chocolat. Show all posts
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Bonjour Les Pates aux Choux, watercolor on Etsy. 9" x 11"
Who isn't captivated by the sheer beauty of French pastry?
But it's what's inside that really counts.
Are you persuaded by just a pretty face?
Any patissiere worth his pates aux choux is very much obsessed by what's inside. Top Parisien patissiere, Carl Marletti shows a luscious cross-section of a religieuse and shares the ingredients in quite an innovative way. Do visit.
The innards of a macaron from Patisserie des Reves' chef Pierre Conticini's cookbook, Sensations. Who knew what mysteries lurked within?
A page from a guide to Pierre Herme's L'Ecole Ferrandi. Herme mentions many times that he'd like to be an architect - but he is, isn't he?
A cross section of a piece of cake at Des Gateaux et du Pain...
In my mad pursuit to paint French pastry I nearly fell over in a faint when I discovered this FAB book, called I think, Encyclopedia of pastry dough - 100 kinds of pastry dough and petit gateau (旭屋出版MOOK) Essential reading for professionals and pastry artists.
If only I knew a bit more Japanese besides 'arigato'/thank you...
Wouldn't it be lovely to know the French names of all these yummy ingredients. Any volunteer translators out there?
Second best to knowing what's inside...
Would be a proper knife to cleanly cut through the pastries. A PBer mentioned Kyocera ceramic knives are the best and I'm getting one today. It's Japanese too... 
Yellow Bird keeps telling me if I had a proper knife I wouldn't make such an awful mess. Hmmm...(shrugs) "c'est la vie".BONJOUR Inner Life of Pastry!
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Did you receive the newest Pierre Herme newsletter this week announcing his new Fall chocolate collection?
French macarons, original art, 5.5" x 7.5"This chocolate Pierre Herme tarte is from a collection 2 years ago and there was no cherry on top - that's my addition...
Herme has a new combination macaron-bonbon!(praline macaroons in chocolate, marzipan melting, coated in dark chocolate)
One chocolate macaron, original art, 5.5" x 7.5"
Herme also has a new book out full of chocolate recipes! Only in French so far but I bet the pictures are to die for...
The surprise chocolat is a standard I think...I hope..
Bowl of macarons, original art, 5.5" x 7.5"
Pierre Herme, in his student days studied with the famed chocolatier, Robert Linxe of La Maison du Chocolat, so his chocolates are superb.
His lovely chocolate map...
Herme maintains this small (not really that small) box of chocolates, always for 10 euros - a don't-miss! It must be for starving-dieting artists...
If you really want to go small there's this mini set of PH from a year ago or so... 
The "CARRéMENT CHOCOLAT" from a year ago - a square of perfect chocolateness if there is such a word - in the box...
Ready for painting...and eatingBONJOUR CHOCOLAT ENCORE!
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Une petite visite today to an old fashioned candy shop -Les Chocolats Foucher
Just across the street from La Grande Epicier on 134, rue Bac, when you set foot in this tiny intimate shop you return to the 1920s.
Still family-owned since 1819, Foucher has cleverly kept all their original Arte Deco graphics on all their packaging. Why do so many shops feel they must modernise? :(
I love chocolate maps, but I really love all maps and this one is a winner!
A charming example of one of Foucher's box covers...they even have post cards of all these designs.
Foucher's boîtes de chocolats "Prestige"
I was first drawn to Foucher at the Salon du Chocolat by these irresistable art deco wrappers on their tablettes de chocolat, so I was delighted to find their shop. A PB reader sent me there.
But all of their candies have an old fashioned feel to them - it's the kind of place where your grandmere would have shopped...
And don't forget les petite bouchees! Bouchée means filled chocolate in a big version. The French sometimes skip lunch and have one entier bouchée instead. And if you have a big mouth, you can eat it in one bite, vous en faites une seule bouchée.
Here's a menu with all the details!
They have tea too at Foucher and bien sur, les macarons. In fact there's a tiny tea salon at the back of the shop for poor weary L'Epicier shoppers to come and recoup, but that's another story for another day...
Bye bye Foucher. See you in October :)BONNE JOURNEE!
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