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Showing posts with label palmier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label palmier. Show all posts
Friday, October 8, 2010
Yesterday I went to Sarabeth's Chelsea bakery to see her new book...
This is her new much adored baby, Sarabeth's Bakery, From my hands to yours.
First I stopped in the bakery to grab a few shots...
Miam-miam!
Everything in Sarabeth's Bakery and served in her restaurants, all the recipes are in this book so you can make them too. 
We shared fresh-from-the-oven to-die-for chocolate chubbies... 
The photos were shot onsite on this very table - they look like you could reach out and take a bite or brush off the flour...
The book is exquisitely designed by Louise Fili - everything is laid out crystal clear and detailed. Even an idiot non-baker like moi could figure these out... 
There are tons of step-by-step photos... 
This is Sarabeth's ONE copy.The book does not come out until October 19th but you can pre-order it.
It was all I could do to wrest the book from her hands to grab a few shots... 
Everything is classy and classic about this book - the design, the recipes - many are from aunts, mother-in-laws, friends. And the flavors are classic - vanilla, chocolate, strawberry.
Sarabeth proudly showed me her steeping vanilla beans, soaking in what looked like primordial ooze. She says it's only rum... 
Sarabeth demos her industrial mixer...eek 
Here sporting the same apron Meryl Streep wore in the movie... 
'It's Complicated' 
All the baking scenes... 
Were shot at Sarabeth's Bakery... 
Naturellement my mind turned to the jams I'd seen lined up like soldiers in the shop... 
Maybe I could make jam... 
Sarabeth and I both studied calligraphy with the queen of Copperplate, Elinor Winters, though I never reached this level of expertise... 
I thought of doing a watercolor of this mini jam and golden palmier but my appetite got there first. These babies are gone gone gone.
Sarabeth can usually be found in her Chelsea Market Bakery on 75 Ninth Avenue & 15th street. 
Her book is as accessible and friendly as she is. Sarabeth wanted it to be 'no frills'. As if you're in the kitchen together sharing baking tips...Sarabeth's Bakery will be launched at William Sonoma on October 19th so come by for a taste and a demo.
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BONJOUR SARABETH!
Monday, March 29, 2010
I was browsing in Galeries Lafayette Home, when I overheard someone behind me say, "Moi, j'adore les rayee!" (Me, I adore stripes) with the emphasis on the adore.
Back in the apartment when I told French Girl what I had for lunch, she exclaimed passionately, "J'ADORE LE STEAK-FRITES!!!"Wha'?
Ask any French Girl about ice cream and she will tell you she ADORES Berthillon
There is no ice cream but Berthillon, particularly caramel au beurre salé.
Kyle adores his Tarte Tatin and kept hinting I should order it at chez Georges (so he could eat mine) I did not - I would be tempted to eat it myself, and fall into a sugar coma...c'est la vie
Every French Girl on the planet adores her ELLE magazine, which comes out on Fridays, so she can spend the entire week-end devouring all the trends/tendances and tips and tear out important bits for the coming week.
By the way, ELLE adores the Trench. Maybe the trench is always in for Spring? I saw a loads of them floating around...
Bien sur the French adore their Alice (A-Leece)...
Et bien sur Laduree gets a ton of adoration...
An unbeatable combo held in great esteem is Repetto ballerines + Laduree macarons. French Girl could not believe that I would leave behind my Repetto be-ribboned bag and take home just the shoes! "But there are so many things you can do with the bag!" she cried.
Moi, j'adore stalking French pastry...Even more than eating it, which is insane. Maybe the camera acts as a protective barrier. I see tartes and petit fours as abstract colors and shapes. Who knows why, but thanks gawd!
Moi, j'adore les palmiers, but the voices in my head said, "RUN! VITE VITE VITE!" and I did.
Parisiens ADORE New York! It's true.
Even if you're from Kansas City, which undoubtedly some of you are, tell em you're from New York for some instant cachet.
"J'adore New York!!!" you will hear over and over.
Tous les mondes adores les macarons.
It's a fact. Something to dream about....
So what do YOU ADORE about Paris?
BONJOUR J'ADORE!
"J'adore New York!!!" you will hear over and over.
Tous les mondes adores les macarons.It's a fact. Something to dream about....
So what do YOU ADORE about Paris?
BONJOUR J'ADORE!
Friday, April 17, 2009
Boulangerie de Palmier, original art, 5" x 7"French Girl says I do not pronounce "palmier" correctly...
Who cares!? I've been eating 'elephant ears' since I was a kid...
True they don't look much like an elephant's ear...
Nor do they look like a 'pig's ear'...
And what this classic pastry has to do with a "palm tree" is a mystery?
This trip I decided to do serious research on the French palmier - pronounced palm-me-ay or FG's version: "palmi-é"This lush baby comes from...
Adorable patisserie/restaurant, Coquelicot in Montmartre...
Patisserie Carette makes a rafinee palmier. 
As does this no-name boulangerie...
On rue de Rennes, 75006...
Patisserie Stohrer on 51, rue Montorgueil, 75001 sells golden palmiers...
Paris' best ice cream-maker, Berthillon makes their own palmier.
In the window at Bonbonniere de Buci on rue de Buci, 75005...
There's no way to make a proper palmier without tons of butter...
Le Moulin de la Vierge blasts the fact right on their windows - Dr. Pritikin would have a cardiac infarction on the spot.
This humble palmier comes from not so humble Patisserie Jean Millet on 103, rue St. Dominque, 75007.
A mystery palmier, but it looks darn good - crispy, crunchy and thinly delicate. I hope you've gained a bit of visual insight into how a good palmier should look if not taste. Did I eat any of my research subjects you ask? I did not. I've moved on to the chaussons aux pomme (a kind of apple pocket only the French do right.
A mystery palmier, but it looks darn good - crispy, crunchy and thinly delicate. I hope you've gained a bit of visual insight into how a good palmier should look if not taste. Did I eat any of my research subjects you ask? I did not. I've moved on to the chaussons aux pomme (a kind of apple pocket only the French do right. 
FYI: you will never find a palmier in a Metro snack dispensers, but there are plenty of madeleines and they aren't half bad!Do you have a fav Paris pastry I should do serious research on?
Do tell!
BONJOUR PALMIERS!!!
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