Category Archives: Pastry

L’Air du Temps- Much More than a Beautiful Scent

Posted on May 22, 2013 by docsconz in BeNeLux, Culinary Personalities, Family, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, Pastry, Restaurants, Slow Food, Top Restaurant Meals, Travel, Wine

 
I first became enthralled by Chef Sang-hoon Degeimbre’s cooking at the 2011 StarChefs International Chefs Congress in New York City. His cooking was beautiful, alluring and had soul. I longed to actually get to taste it. His restaurant, L’Air du [...]

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The Art of Chocolate – Francisco Migoya’s Hudson Chocolates

Posted on May 16, 2013 by docsconz in At the Market, Culinary Blogs, Culinary Personalities, Culinary Shopping, Food and Drink, Pastry, Slow Food, Top Tastes, Upstate NY

If there is someone making chocolate confections more creative, beautiful and delicious than Francisco Migoya is doing at his new Hudson Chocolates in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. I am unaware of it. I recently stopped there on my way down to NYC [...]

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A Mother’s Celebration at Cafe Boulud

Posted on May 14, 2013 by docsconz in Culinary Personalities, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, Holidays, New York City, Pastry, Restaurants, Slow Food, Top Restaurant Meals, Wine

It wasn’t yet Mothers Day or my wife’s birthday. Those would both be the following day. It was, however, the day to celebrate both as well as two bon voyages. We drove down to New York City to take our [...]

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Aqui Está Coco Means Here is Great Seafood

Posted on May 9, 2013 by docsconz in Chile, Cocktails & Libations, Culinary Personalities, Food and Drink, Pastry, Regional, Restaurants, Slow Food, Top Restaurant Meals, Traditional Ethnic, Travel, Wine

By the time we left Rancho Doña Maria to drive back to our hotel in Santiago I really didn’t want to think about more food, let alone eat it. We had already had a wonderful seafood breakfast at the Mercado [...]

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Dining at La Grenouillére

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Lawrence Sconzo in Culinary Personalities, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, France, Hotels, LJ Sconzo, Pastry, Restaurants, Slow Food, Starchefs, Top Restaurant Meals, Traditional Ethnic, Travel

After getting a taste of Chef Alex Gauthier’s cooking at last year’s StarChefs ICC (read about it here), I was looking forward to our reservation at his nouveau-French restaurant more than any other on our pilgrimage. Happily, it did not [...]

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Empanadas and Pork- A Day of Glorious Eating Continues at Rancho Doña Maria

Posted on May 1, 2013 by docsconz in Chile, Food and Drink, Pastry, Regional, Slow Food, Top Restaurant Meals, Top Tastes, Traditional Ethnic, Travel, Wine

The old saying is “You can’t judge a book by its cover.” That can also be applied to restaurants – at least some times. Left entirely to my own devices, I have to admit its highly unlikely that I would [...]

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King Crab and Roasted Lamb – El Meson de la Patagonia

Posted on April 29, 2013 by docsconz in Chile, Culinary Blogs, Food and Drink, Pastry, Regional, Restaurants, Slow Food, Traditional Ethnic, Travel

The day started with a tour and a rousing breakfast at two of Santiago’s main food markets, but that was only the beginning of an epic day of eating some of the best food to be had in Chile (or [...]

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Boragó – Tasting Chile’s Ancient Roots With A New Vision

Posted on April 24, 2013 by docsconz in Chile, Cocktails & Libations, Culinary Personalities, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, Pastry, Regional, Slow Food, Starchefs, Top Restaurant Meals, Top Tastes, Travel, Wine

Chile’s neighboring country of Peru has long been known for the seemingly infinite variety of native ingredients, many of which have been adopted and adapted by other cultures as part of the Columbian Exchange, in which products from the Americas [...]

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Dining at In de Wulf

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Lawrence Sconzo in BeNeLux, Cheese, Cocktails & Libations, Culinary Personalities, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, Hotels, LJ Sconzo, Pastry, Regional, Restaurants, Slow Food, Top Restaurant Meals, Travel

Located in the middle of the hilly Belgian countryside, a winter excursion to Chef Kobe Desramaults’ In de Wulf is like finding an oasis in a frozen desert. It’s only accessible by icy, elevated one-lane roads, which leads to trouble [...]

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De Librije – Dutch for Delightfully Delicious!

Posted on March 21, 2013 by docsconz in BeNeLux, Big Green Egg, Cheese, Cocktails & Libations, Culinary Personalities, Family, Fine Dining, Food and Drink, Pastry, Restaurants, Slow Food, Top Restaurant Meals, Travel, Wine

Well, delightfully delicious is not the literal translation of De Librije from the Dutch, but based upon my recent meal at the restaurant and night at their hotel, perhaps it should be. De Librije literally means “the library” just like [...]

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