New York

I've just come back from a great week in NYC. Serious eating plus some promotion for my book Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes and catching up with friends. I plan to post about my trip when I finally catch up with everything I let slide while I was away. In the meantime you can read about one of my adventures here.

Truffles

In my excitement over my galette des rois I forgot to post about New Year's Day. So here it is.

Epiphany and Blumenthal

Epiphany marks the visit of Wise Men to the baby Jesus. We all know they brought gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. I am happy to celebrate the event with a galette des rois but creative British chef Heston Blumenthal took it one step further, he created a dinner based on these gifts and much more.
Take the time to watch it here, it is fascinating and you'll discover just what myrrh is.

2010

Well here it is January 2010 and almost Epiphany. One of my favourite days because it's associated with a cake. I think that there should be more holidays linked to food. I blogged about this day before, so I'm not going to repeat myself. I baked a galette des rois yesterday, early because today my French friends fly back to Paris.