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Baking Week: Wake, Bake and Decorate this (unintentionally) Vegan Cake

Posted by Ian Finn on Aug. 17, 2009, at 9:00 am

I get paid to decorate cakes. Or, rather, I get paid to teach other people how to decorate cakes.

A sweet deal, no pun intended. Helping others do what I love is a real hoot, and this summer’s class really churned out some nice ones.

Cake decorating is simple:

You need desire. You need drive. You must be able to focus. And your short term memory must be somewhat intact.

If you have all of the above, you’re good to go. Find yourself a book, a teacher, the necessary equipment, and get started. What you don’t already know, you’ll learn along the way.

You can start with this, the basic white cake recipe for the cakes we decorate in my class. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ace of cakes, baking, bourdain, cake boss, cake decorating, cake recipes, cakes, ian finn, icing, no reservations, vegan, vegetarian
Posted in Recipes & Cooking |



Bourdain calls Alice Waters “very Khmer Rouge”

Posted by Brian Ries on Jan. 22, 2009, at 1:18 pm

DCist interviewed Anthony Bourdain — of No Reservations, and any other outlet where he can spout off with little restraint. Mild little interview, mostly, unless you’re interested in his plans to move to Vietnam with his family for a year. Until, of course, the final question.

Wouldn’t be Tony without one incendiary remark: Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: alice waters, anthony bourdain, bravo, no reservations
Posted in Food News, Food and Restaurants |



Food quote of the day

Posted by Brian Ries on Jan. 15, 2009, at 11:10 am

Unsurprisingly, Mario Batali was talking to fellow debauched food guy Anthony Bourdain when he uttered the following:

“There’s a couple of ways that you make someone happy by putting something inside of them, and that’s food and that’s sex.”

From Serious Eats’ Chewing the Fat series.

Tags: anthony bourdain, chef, food, mario batali, no reservations, quote, Sex, TV
Posted in Food News, Food and Restaurants |

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