Nutmeg In Paris

I was living in New Orleans, working as a middle school English teacher when Hurricane Katrina struck and the levees broke. I lost my job, and decided that it was time to pursue my dream of going to culinary school. Here I am in Paris for the next eight months, cooking and exploring, trying to decide what comes next...

Wednesday, May 03, 2006


Now presenting the Passionata. Have you ever seen anything edible be so day glo in your life? I can’t say it’s delicious, either. It’s a Cigarette batter under a Joconde biscuit (very thin vanilla cakes- pretty flavorless), with coconut dacquoise (a better, more flavorful cake), a passion fruit mousse, a raspberry mousse, and a raspberry glaze. All that in two hours. We did work in teams however; one person made a double batch of one thing and the other person made double of the other and we spilt it down the middle. It was great teamwork and it really made things easier and faster. Unfortunately, this cake was one of the exam cakes last session, and you don’t get to share for that. How did anyone ever get all this done in two and a half hours? If I have one wish, it’s to not have to do this nasty, bright cake on the exam…

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