I spent a summer in Japan when I was 15 and discovered that Japanese chefs can take any foreign pastry– Italian tiramisu, French puff pastry, and even Spanish churros– and improve on perfection. The Japanese versions of western style cakes tasted lighter and more flavorful. And boy were they pretty. But try as they might, the… Read more »
I spent a summer in Japan when I was 15 and discovered that Japanese chefs can take any foreign pastry– Italian tiramisu, French puff pastry, and even Spanish churros– and improve on perfection. The Japanese versions of western style cakes tasted lighter and more flavorful. And boy were they pretty. But try as they might, the… Read more »
When walking my daughter’s dog in Charlottenburg, I enjoy examining the plaques on buildings. My favorite is the one marking the building on Mommsenstraße where Hanns Sachs lived from 1920 to 1932. Sachs was a Viennese lawyer who was trained by Freud and became a member of his inner circle. Karl Abraham, another early student… Read more »
