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The Provençal Thirteen: Fennel- and Cumin-Scented Sablés
Photo Credit: C. Bertelsen In France, you’ll find sablés, buttery cookies that originated in Normandy. (You know they had all that butter to get rid of there.) Most sablés are sweet. But in Provence,...
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And a Cake Fit for Three Kings: Galette/Gateau des Rois
Bonne Année! Happy New Year! Galette des Rois (Photo credit: Yuichi Sakuraba) I first ate Galette des Rois in Paris, on a cold, rainy January day. The smell of the almond-paste filling seemed to reach...
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The Little Red Hen had a Point: The Tao of Baking Bread
Rising dough, pregnant with bread on the way (Photo credit: C. Bertelsen) Forming the loaves (Photo credit: C. Bertelsen) A tool for slashing the loaves (Photo credit: C. Bertelsen) Loaves ready for...
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Cheese + Flour + Yeast + Salt + Eggs = The Ancient Mystery of Bread
Pain ordinaire chez moi (Photo credit: C. Bertelsen) To contemplate bread even more, please go my previous post, Panis Gravis, or, Bread, Endless Nurturer. I’ve baked bread for years and years. In...
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Eating Dessert at the White House + A Word about Dallas, November 22, 1963*
Photo credit: C. Bertelsen Bill Yosses, the current White House pastry chef says pie is the all-time favorite in the Obama White House, but adds that “The dessert that was the biggest hit last year was...
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Lefse, and Giving Thanks via a Food of Immigration, Poverty, and Oppression
Grooved rolling pin (Photo credit: C. Bertelsen) Term: lefse (food) Definition: thin, unleavened bread of Norwegian origin, traditionally made of a potato-based dough and baked on a griddle [Source:...
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Fruitcake, Fermentation by Another Name
ld We never eat fruitcake because it has rum, And one little slice puts a man on the bum. Oh, can you imagine the pitiful plight Of a man eating fruitcake until he gets tight? A man who eats fruitcake...
View ArticleAnd a Cake Fit for Three Kings: Galette/Gateau des Rois
Bonne Année! Happy New Year! I first ate Galette des Rois in Paris, on a cold, rainy January day. The smell of the almond-paste filling seemed to reach right out through the door of the nameless...
View ArticleThe Provençal Thirteen: Fennel- and Cumin-Scented Sablés
In France, you’ll find sablés, buttery cookies that originated in Normandy. (You know they had all that butter to get rid of there.) Most sablés are sweet. But in Provence, for the famous Thirteen...
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