Tag: pastries

Categories
concert/event

Top 10 Pastry Chefs in America 2012

Last night, Dessert Professional honored the Top 10  Pastry Chefs in America across the street from my office.

Top 10 Pastry Chefs in America – 2012

Nathaniel Reid - Norman Love Confections, Naples FL
Jean-Marie Auboine – Jean-Marie Auboine Chocolatier, Las Vegas, NV
Chris Hanmer - The School of Pastry Design, Las Vegas, NV
Sally Camacho - WP24, Los Angeles, CA  
Craig Harzewski - Naha, Chicago, IL 
Sandro Micheli – Daniel, NYC
Marc Aumont - The Modern, NYC
Christina Tosi – Momofuku Milk Bar, NYC
Damien Herrgott – Bos ie Tea Parlor, NYC
Angela Pinkerton – Eleven Madison Park, NYC

2012 Hall of Fame Honoree: Marcel Desaulniers, Mad About Chocolate.

Some really good stuff. My favorites were the Chocolate Beignets and the Pork Buns. I ate too many sweets. I think I got diabetes last night.

Categories
travel

Cedarland Middle Eastern Grocery (Charlotte, North Carolina)

I’ve posted snippets from the road, but now I’m ready to share our full-on adventures and photos from our Shonali Bhowmik 100 Oak’s Revival tour down South…

Day 3: After stuffing our faces with Vietnamese food, we walked over next door to the Middle Eastern grocery store, Cedarland. Tasty baklava and molasses ice tea.

Then Scott took us to the Green park to see the cool Niki de Saint Phalle sculptures.

Cedarland - 4832 Central Ave. Charlotte, NC 28205

I should’ve got this hair product.

Categories
travel

Belle Epicurean in Seattle

I rarely ever eat breakfast and rarely ever eat pastries …and pastries for breakfast? Maybe when I was five. Jennifer, Richard and I walked around downtown Seattle a bit before our flights home. We stopped in Belle Epicurean (part of the Fairmont Hotel). I didn’t want anything except some bubbly seltzer water. Why is it so hard to find seltzer water on the west coast? I can only find club soda in California and sparkling water in Seattle. So I got a Pierre. I tasted Jennifer’s Pain au Raisin sweet bun. Tasty. I ended up eating half of it.

Belle Epicurean – 1206 4th Ave (btw Seneca & University St) Seattle, WA 98101