Latvian Master Baker
November 17, 2004
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I’m living with Latvians again. This time Emils has brought wife/girlfriend Simone and its cosy as can be. They brought me some highly crafted rye bread from Riga. Normally the loaves are 50cm across, this loaf being a cute mini export version.
The bakery claims to be the ‘only bakery in Latvia to have restored the ancestral Latvian national traditions…’ I’m going to assume that’s a Latvian to English translation glitch on the label.
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La Peche qui brule
November 16, 2004
That was the title of the smoldering peach course on that eventually sultry August evening. We placed the carmelised peaches on the pôts de creme au chocolate brulée. You can’t eat one without eating the other.
And that’s exactly what a French speaker would say, ‘You can’t heat one without heating the other.’
As with the previous slideshow, these photos are courtesy of Kristine Malden.
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The Banquet Years
Guess what we did last summer… we had a banquet!
Maybe because my last entry looked so pitiful, the colourful cakes and the leaden November sky. I thought it was high time to upload some images from this summer’s culinary activities – and not just to some dank place in the culiblog archives.
As a community we ate off two, 8 metre long rolls of homemade pasta lasagna, into which sage and beet leaves had been pressed (see composite photo above) and when we were done, we rolled up the entire table.
Click for the slideshow here. The images in it are all photographs by Kristine Malden, a friend who thankfully was our guest that August evening.
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