Tagged With "bakery"
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Re: Local Flavor: Pearl Brewery Farmers Market, San Antonio
I'm so tempted to buy the wonderful foods I see in street markets. But being a tourist with nowhere to store and cook I regret I must pass. Much of the fruit and veg I have never seen before and I'm eager to try. Which is true I suppose for most folks in England. If we don't recognise a sweet potato - then we don't buy it. I do miss the vanilla flavoured Apples ( Custard Apples ) I had in Australia.
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Re: Macaroons in a Paris bakery
Aw, come on...the flavors are labeled on the signs...but enlarging it enough to read has made me twice as hungry for them...
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Re: Macaroons in a Paris bakery
I just wanted to make sure someone was looking, PHeymont! The strawberry was my favorite. Which one did you like best?
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Re: Macaroons in a Paris bakery
I'm not a big fan of macarons (sorry, world!) but among them my favorites are coffee and Fruits Rouges. I noticed recently that there is a caramel with sea salt one now available...will report on that in July.
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Re: Luxembourg, Old City
It looks like rhubarb to me, too. I'd call it a tart but where do they call it a clafouti? I've never heard the word.
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Re: Luxembourg, Old City
That does look like rhubarb, doesn't it? It was sitting right beside the ham and mushroom quiche. But rhubarb sounds appealing right now.....
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Re: Luxembourg, Old City
Clafoutis (I lost an s in typing) is a French dessert that is essentially a tart with fruit (the most traditional is cherries) in a flan-like custard. Usually you bake part of the custard a bit, add the fruit and more custard. I always thought it was from Normandy, because I first encountered it there, and then in a Norman restaurant in Paris, but it turns out the food historians say it comes from Limousin, and the name is from the Occitan "clafotis" which means "filled." So what probably...
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Re: Luxembourg, Old City
Very interesting. Eating them for decades and never heard the term. I love to learn something about which I believed I already knew it all! Yum.
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Oct 21, 2014: Maltese Bread
My wife sometimes believes that my main photo subjects are bread, fruit and veg, and birds perched on statues, so it's nice to know someone else appreciates how beautiful bread is, and how easy it is to smell it and taste just by looking at a great picture like this!
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Oct 21, 2014: Maltese Bread
Maltese bread is something special. I'd certainly use it as an excuse, if you need one PHeymont, to visit Malta. Wonderful photo, IslandMan.
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Oct 21, 2014: Maltese Bread
I also love a fresh loaf of bread. When it's just right, it's easy to make a meal of just bread and butter. I have great sympathy for those who can't eat gluten. I'm not sure I'd find life worth living without fresh baked goods.
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Oct 21, 2014: Maltese Bread
Walking the narrow streets of Valletta - past the small shops that sell freshly cooked food and cakes. The smell of Coffee from the Cafes and Restaurants. And the smell of new leather. Brings back all the memories of wonderful Malta.
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Re: France: Baking up a fight over bread and hours
I'm sorry, but this is just tooooooooo much regulation. The government should let bakers decide when they want to open or not. Free markets have a way of sorting this type of thing out beautifully.
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Re: France: Baking up a fight over bread and hours
I'm not so sure I trust free markets to run things so well...and I've seen mice run themselves to death on a treadmill. But I do think that it should be possible for bakeries to be open 24/7/365 as long as workers' hours are reasonable and there are enough of them.
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Re: France: Baking up a fight over bread and hours
In a free market, workers hours are never reasonable. If Pierre the Baker wont work a 14 hour day - then there are a million immigrants who will. Europeans you can work a maximum of 48 hours a week.
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Re: France: Baking up a fight over bread and hours
PHeymont -- it's one thing for flights and traffic laws and such to be regulated where there is a greater common good. But the idea of a government regulating when bakers can make bread is absurd in concept and execution. It is this kind of nanny micromanagement that will ruin an economy. Surely the politicians can find better ways to spend their time.
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Re: Luxembourg Pastry shop, Old City
Paul bakeries are my downfall and they seem to be everywhere. Millions of calories I don't need have been forced on me by this company, against my will of course. They clearly use hypnosis or some similar mechanism, from which one cannot escape. Fortunately, as far as I know, there's an ocean between me and the closest such tart pusher.
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Re: Luxembourg Pastry shop, Old City
We really enjoyed Paul's as well. Everything was always perfectly fresh and perfect! An excellent budget travel tip for those looking for an inexpensive breakfast or lunch while in Europe. And everything in their counter does reach out to your psyche with an "Eat me" message!
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Re: Luxembourg Pastry shop, Old City
Last two times in Paris we didn't even get out of CDG without a stop at Paul...and that's not just because they've taken my name...but I don't see my favorite mocha eclair in the picture...
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Re: Luxembourg Pastry shop, Old City
Pheymont -- are you trying to tell me you'd refuse an offering from that platter just because your favorite wasn't on it?? If so, your willpower is a log factor stronger than mine!
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It's a bird! a plane! No, it's a tasty roll!
Almost every day there's another story about the future of drones for delivery; just look a few days ago in our NewsLinks and you'll see the Swiss Post Office has plans. Now, a bakery in a Spanish town is just waiting for government approval to start...
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Oct 21, 2014: Maltese Bread
The aroma of freshly baked bread is a special treat for the senses. Wherever we travel we usually track down the local bakery or cafe seeking something delectable for our morning sustenance. A favorite of mine is the traditional Maltese...
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Gayle's Bakery & Rosticceria, Capitola, California
Travel Rob loves Gayle's Bakery & Rosticceria, and tells us why it has become a local institution in Capitola.
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Local Flavor: Pearl Brewery Farmers Market, San Antonio
Samantha and her husband had a great time at the Pearl Brewery Farmers Market. It's close to the Riverwalk and full of fresh merchandise from local vendors.
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Re: Gayle's Bakery & Rosticceria, Capitola, California
When I was a kid in the Bay Area, Capitola was a place we went from time to time for weekend outings. But that was long before Gayle's, which looks like a fine place to take my granddaughters and see what else has happened to the town since those olden days.
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Plenty to Do and See in Quaint, Historic Lititz
Stephanie shares some of the sights and experiences in charming Lititz, "the coolest small town in America">
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Oregon Public House, Springfield, Oregon
Samantha shares her visit to the Public House in Springfield, Oregon where the community can gather to enjoy a variety of foods, enjoy a pint, and good conversation.
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France: Baking up a fight over bread and hours
French law, French tradition and what some perceive as "modern times" are leading to a clash in France over laws mandating that artisan trades—and that includes the bread bakers—must close for at least one day a week.
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1 Million French donuts headed for Los Angeles
You didn't misread that, and we're not talking about the typical donut-shop "French cruller," either.