"There's no good tea, there's no bad tea," Didier Jumeau-Lafond of Dammann Frères, the exclusive Parisian sellers of 3,500 fine teas, told the 13 September gathering at the Galleria Illy pop-up. "There is just one tea, the one you like." It was a good line, infusing...
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Trio of chocolate pots de crème with matcha
Published in The Los Angeles Times – May 13, 2009 Pots de Crème takes its name from the petits pots in which the lightly set custard is baked and served. In my recipe the traditional French dessert is composed as a trio of three chocolates – white, milk, dark – each...
For chocolate, a matcha made in heaven
Published in The Los Angeles Times – May 13, 2009 At a glance, the cross-cultural dessert pairing of chocolate and matcha, the prized Japanese green tea powder, may not seem the sort of combination to elicit uncontrollable cravings. Among the many terms used to evoke...