We Need More Food at Raves
The owner of Chez Helene gave us the bread pudding recipe when we left, and I’m going to throw it in because it’s the best bread pudding I’ve ever eaten. It tastes like caramelized mush. Cream 2 cups sugar with 2 sticks butter. Then add 2½ cups milk, one 13-ounce can evaporated milk, 2 tablespoons nutmeg, 2 tablespoons vanilla, a loaf of wet bread
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Mercedes Bent • Omnichannel Social: How the Pandemic Transformed Social Products
sari added
It’s like pulling a tin of cardamom muffins from the oven, marveling at their perfectly brown tops before biting in and scattering crumbs on your lap.
Nicole Gulotta • Wild Words: Rituals, Routines, and Rhythms for Braving the Writer's Path
After her ablutions, she sets the chaa on the stove: milk, water, black tea, sugar, and her own family's blend of spices, an authentic ancestor of the "chai" sold in trendy cafés throughout the City of Angels.
Minal Hajratwala • Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
Chef Sati Invites You to Dinner Chef Sati—a chef and Buddhist teacher—invited us to dinner to introduce us to the art of mindful cooking and eating. He promised that his dishes would enlighten our senses and that the evening would simply be an opportunity to touch the joy of life, but we would all have to take an active part in the meal. He placed
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sleight of hand into the experience of dining with us—which led to my meeting with a team of magicians to create a trick where you picked the main ingredient in your dessert by choosing a card, though a chocolate flavored with that ingredient was already secretly on the table. (A sweeter ending than losing your allowance to a con man, for sure.)
Will Guidara • Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect
the rhythm of the pastry: