Category Archives: amaretti & raspberry cake

on having and eating cake…

Posted on May 21, 2017 by Food,Photography & France

A very depressing aphorism suggests that one cannot have one’s cake and eat it which seems contradictory to me as the sole chance of eating one’s cake is indeed to have it, if only for that short time until it has … Continue reading →

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lunch: a user’s manual..

Posted on September 2, 2015 by Food,Photography & France

Let me be clear, I don’t give a flying fuck if Marie Antoinette said brioche, chelsea buns or if she said bugger all…I’m saying it now…”let them eat cake”. In particular, let them eat this cake. Amaretti biscuits have always been … Continue reading →

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