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Showing posts with label macaron tragedie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label macaron tragedie. Show all posts
Friday, May 7, 2010
Sometimes bad stuff happens to good people...
You go to La Maison du Chocolat for a lovely box of macarons. You carry them carefully out of the store, making sure nothing touches them. You place them under your seat on the subway, so no one steps on them. You run off the train at your stop and completely forget to grab your bag of macarons!
Quelle tragedie non?
In Paris you know better than to think these puppies will get home safely in this little cello bag. You insist on a boite/box bien sur svp.
Back in New York, a ready pre-packed box is not such a good idea. In fact you always want to pick out your macarons fraiche. Heavens! How long they've been sleeping in that box?
An Older French Girl at a book party tells you excitedly there is a new "French" patisserie on east 69th street 30 East 68th st., and she thinks they may have macarons! YIKES
Naturally you dash over camera in hand...
NO MACARONS!
"We might have them in a few weeks," they say...
While hanging your exhibit at The James Beard House last Friday, you shoot the other guy's paintings and plum forgot to shoot your own...
You do not forget to shoot the trays and trays of lemon macarons waiting nearby for the evenings' dinner. A chef comes in and asks if he can "borrow" your ruler.You ask,
"Are you the pastry chef?"
"Yes, how did you know?"
Only a pastry chef ever asks for a ruler.
He lets you taste a lid or two...miam
At the Beard Awards Monday night, there is not a single macaron to be seen! Pretty tragique if you ask me. HMPH
While browsing in Barnes & Nobles you start to hyperventilate
You do go back to La Maison for another box of macarons-you're going to shoot them this week-end. All for researche bien sur. Have YOU had any macaron tragedies? Do tell!
In Paris you know better than to think these puppies will get home safely in this little cello bag. You insist on a boite/box bien sur svp.
Back in New York, a ready pre-packed box is not such a good idea. In fact you always want to pick out your macarons fraiche. Heavens! How long they've been sleeping in that box?
An Older French Girl at a book party tells you excitedly there is a new "French" patisserie on 
Naturally you dash over camera in hand...NO MACARONS!
"We might have them in a few weeks," they say...
While hanging your exhibit at The James Beard House last Friday, you shoot the other guy's paintings and plum forgot to shoot your own...
You do not forget to shoot the trays and trays of lemon macarons waiting nearby for the evenings' dinner. A chef comes in and asks if he can "borrow" your ruler.You ask, "Are you the pastry chef?"
"Yes, how did you know?"
Only a pastry chef ever asks for a ruler.
He lets you taste a lid or two...miam
At the Beard Awards Monday night, there is not a single macaron to be seen! Pretty tragique if you ask me. HMPH
While browsing in Barnes & Nobles you start to hyperventilateA NEW macaron cookbook? Not that you bake or anything...
No such luck.
No such luck. Just plain old macaron-i 
c'est la vie
You do go back to La Maison for another box of macarons-you're going to shoot them this week-end. All for researche bien sur. Have YOU had any macaron tragedies? Do tell!
HAVE A HAPPY MOM'S DAY!
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Are you bringing dessert to your Thanksgiving dinner destination?
Bad things can happen to good desserts - before.
When they are in transit - after.
I took these 3 desserts to Barbara Bleu for afternoon tea.I'm afraid the trip was too much for these fragile beauties...
Here's a lovely example of red and green harmony from Pierre Herme...
Not so lovely result from a trip on the Paris Metro -it went slip sliding away, because I did not treat it with kid gloves. c'est la vie
My 1st day in Paris I made a B-line for Pierre Herme and bought this lovely creation plus 2 others, thinking I'd have painting material for a while...
I made the fatal error of entering the Metro at rush hour. Quelle idiot! I know why French women snack on Pierre Herme's fabulous desserts in the street. 
Plus I did not request these 3 delights to be packed seperately.
Live and learn. It would be wise to reserve a hotel close to your favorite patisserie.Hotel Bonaparte is across from Pierre Herme.
Live and learn. It would be wise to reserve a hotel close to your favorite patisserie.Hotel Bonaparte is across from Pierre Herme.
Sometimes you will be sold les macarons sans /without a box top!Quelle sacriledge et tragedie!
Listen when the sales person asks if your dessert is "pour emporte?" Take-away and eat immediately? Tell her it's un cadeau/gift. You need une boite /box.Or there may be an unhappy surprise when you get back to your room to feast. Speaking of feasting...
Have a HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
I'd like to be having Thanksgiving dinner where Francois Simon of Le Figaro is dining. The dessert looks especially fetching. I was once a guest at Les Crayères because I'd drawn a portrait of the chef, Gerard Boyer. I will draw for food anytime!
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