31 Jan 2011, Posted by admin in EAT + DRINK, 0 Comments

Almond Debate: Is Fat Uncle Farms Making Marzipan Or Almond Paste? Depends On The Century + Who You Ask


In today’s world of health-touting food packaging, even hard alcohol is boastfully going organic (you would think 80+ proof would make anything pesticide free). And so there is an insidious pleasure in buying farmers’ market fresh, and obviously healthy, chunky almond butter, sea salt-roasted almonds and almond flour from the small Wasco-based Fat Uncle Farms. They make no excuses about that chubby man lounging on their label — or their stellar [and old school] marzipan.

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28 Sep 2010, Posted by admin in EAT + DRINK, 0 Comments

A World of Cake Cookbook: Where To Read + Eat Your Cake Culinary History


Back cover cookbook accolades usually offer little more than a glimpse into the author’s connections, be them personal or professional, though it’s no secret they’re typically chosen for their relevance to the book. In Krystina Castella’s A World of Cake: 150 Recipes for Sweet Traditions From Cultures Near and Far, the kudos are an odd mixed bag. Baking Queen Mother Dorie Greenspan offers a paragraph of praise alongside Anne Byrn, she of just-doctor-the-damn-Duncan-Hines-cake-mix fame. And so a well researched, thoughtfully organized, almost documentary-like survey of cakes around the world by someone who has written several dessert books (Booze Cakes, Crazy About Cupcakes), perhaps best politely described as whimsical, was exactly — but then again not quite — what we expected.

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