cakes and cakes and cakes: a maddening and mystifying look at the portuguese semi-industrial confectionery of FABRICO PROPRIO

preparing for an all hallow's bash...menu coming soon

tonite, miriam is making an ISHTAR-themed cocktail and doing a Q&A HERE

summer at the society of the crumb...

thank you MAYSLES

...the menu for The Soft Life








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Saturday, June 13, 2009

at the Maysles Institute & Movie Theater

Snacks by Society of the Crumb

Menu for The Soft Life:

liver pâté served with lemon
w/ Ritz crackers

Wonder bread pudding 
(for pampered racoons)

for purchase at the bar:
gin fizzes 

and 

butter pecan ice-cream 
(each served in paper cups)


Friday (apres-panel):
corn on the cob (Edith's "corn my way")
beer

sorry for snoozing...soTc will see you in Montreal soon...

looking forward to:

seedy bagels

smoked stacked meats with a paintbrush of moutarde

claude postel

spruce beer floats

confiserie marie et francky

et plus...X

tender green

a dream elixir for spring.

a rose at dusk

in an egg cream (with fig) or over two scoops
apple rose
rose & pine

dillinger's pantry/royal custard

banana ketchup
iris root &
rose plush...

to busy bee-

recipe for fig caramel pudding:

2 cups chopped figs
375 ml can evaporated milk
1 tsp custard powder
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup golden syrup

-polly-put-the-kettle-on

s.o.t.c. in los angeles

cardamom mushrooms with local lemons

muenster with cumin seeds

or
farmer's cheese from alpine village with cinnamon thyme red onions

sour kumquat preserves &
mascarpone from gioia cheese in el monte

YAYA'S CORN

oranges from the northridge grove

chocolate mouse with o.o. and maldon sea salt

chestnut pate

candy crunchies from papabubble, NYC

SOCIETY OF THE CRUMB (BUM), california edition

february 21, 2009

california kumquat

2 cups freshly-picked kumquats, seeded

2 cups sugar

3 tbsp. pectin

1 tbsp. calcium water

makes two jars

curse of the demon

"sing - the spirits like it:

cherry ripe,

cherry ripe,
ripe, i cry!"

1 1/2 oz vodka
1/2 oz kirschwasser
1/2 oz laird's apple brandy

To be served at seances. Pour vodka, kirschwasser and laird's into a glasses half-filled with ice cubes. Garnish with drunken cherries...and conjure the dead.

menu: mirage

scotch and lemon peel

menu for jeanne & sylvain

first day: celeriac soup (served in a shallow bowl with a wide-mouthed spoon)
stewed meat
boiled potatoes

Second day: vichysoisse or watercress soup
breaded veal
peas and carrots
boiled potatoes

Third day: (toute seule)
Cafe au lait, 3 x
Thin slice of white bread

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