03/11/2021
Culinary Diaries, Paris
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1. Playing with the shape and idea of chocolate as a sculpture. This piece was inspired by the iron bars on my window. I spent hours mastering tempering on marble in my home, and then created my own mold from a sugar cord with tape. My mentor in school at the time laughed and thought I was crazy to play with such a MacGyver type mold. It wasn’t until I showed him my process during my final chocolate exam, that he believed in the idea. He challenged me to continue to think outside the box, and that all great things take time. Thanks to that mentor, I landed my first job in Paris and it never felt like a day of work but more so exploratory fun!
2. Marble Sugar Disk
3. First time stretching sugar for floral design-hence the burns on my hands.
4. Candy
5. Verrine
6. Petite Fours
7. Eclairs, Choux
8. Passion Fruit Gateux
9. Chocolate Pistachio
10. My Paris flat where all the magic, cooking, copious amounts of wine, art collecting, tears and laughter took place. ❤️
Paris, mon coeur est à toi !!!
