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- Pink Grapefruit Tart, or Why You Should Boycott Creme Brulee Torches
When I was working in the pastry kitchen at my cooking school’s restaurant, we used to put out an insanely complicated dessert called a chiboust. There was lemon zest to candy, cherries to make into a boozy compote, shortbread to knead and bake into rounds–and all that was before we even got to the chiboust […]
- The Buddha and the Three Oranges
This is not a Zen koan; this is a recipe for a high-fat dessert. That it contains three citrus fruits is a frivolity: a single orange will work just as well, but I couldn’t resist snapping up the wrinkly satsuma, the blood orange, or the sweet lime (looking like a beach ball abandoned halfway through […]
