Sugar Savvy

This handsome nugget, in addition to a similar Mint Sandwich Cookie, is featured as a Christmas item on the Emily’s Chocolates website, smartly packaged in a sturdy and festive snowman-adorned tub. But a peanut butter sandwich cookie, if you ask me, defies seasonal pigeonholing. And luckily, when I received them in the mail just last […]

Magic in your mouth. That’s the way Wheeler’s Black Label describes itself, with no hint at modesty or shyness, proclaiming superiority in a fiercely competitive field. A bold move from this newborn company, facing up against the big boys like Häagen-Dazs and Baskin Robbins without so much as flinching. This apparent lack of tact would […]

Just before going on a Holiday Break, I catered a Graduation Dinner. I had to stick to something relatively easy because the place the dinner was being served didn’t even had a way to keep food cold, let alone frozen. I came up with the idea of Panna Cotta, but I needed to make it […]

I just had a “big” dinner for a small party. It was a celebration and they let me go nuts with the menu. I just love it when I get these opportunities, because they’re a chance to really try out interesting concepts. I had read a while back about a dessert served in Mexico’s Pujol, […]

We all love dessert, obviously. Proof of that is the opening of dessert-centered restaurants or dessert bars, or Pastry chefs opening their restaurants where they play with our tastebuds. Pichet Ong, Sam Mason, Elizabeth Falkner, Will Goldfarb, Chika Tillman and even Alain Ducasse are just some people that one can name as examples of this […]

Even though the recently shuttered Serendipity 3 unveiled a $25,000 dessert, they’re not the only game in town in terms of pricey desserts.  The Fortress Hotel in Galle, Sri Lanka, recently unleashed the Fortress Stilt Fisherman Indulgence, a $14,500 wonder that features a gold leaf Italian cassata flavored with Irish cream and served with a […]