Fancy, towering cakes are amazing examples of culinary architecture, but they’re time-consuming to make and sometimes puzzling to eat. (How can we poke a fork in without making the entire thing collapse in on itself?) In terms of classy desserts, I’ll take a nicely stocked cheese and fruit plate over an umpteen-layer cake any day…especially [...]
You can’t go wrong with a classy cheese. It can be goat cheese, sheep cheese, cow cheese, yellow cheese, white cheese, orange cheese…it can have gray ash or dried cherries or dried herbs in it. It can even have blue mold in it. Whatever its story, top-notch cheeses always have a welcome placemat on my [...]
Ask any European–a savory, stuffed crêpe makes a great lunch. You’ll find sweet crêpes at the corner crêperie, too, but there will be just as many (if not more) on the savory menu. The pictured trio includes: one crêpe wrapped around scrambled eggs, one filled with Parmesan and Asiago cheeses, and one stuffed with a [...]
