Burmese Days
For the Hebrew version of this article “Burmese food is nothing like Thai, Indian or Chinese. Lower your expectations.” Rafi implored us before going to our trip to Myanmar, or the more familiar old name, Burma. “But if there is someone I trust to enjoy Burmese food, it’s you.” With these daunting words, we went on an adventure in a country we have never seen similar in the world. A difficult and depressing country but... Read More
Summer In Tel-Aviv Cooking
Summer in Tel-Aviv… Sun. Humidity. The beach. Sand and sea water going up my nose. Flip-flops. Ice coffee and frozen grapes. A raging rise of the vegan craze mixed with natural urges for carnivorism. A big gap between the fresh memories of the passing year in Paris and the present local existence. Missing the friends I left behind, renewing old friendships, meeting new people. Discovering myself anew. It was a great summer. These are some of... Read More
No Need For An Excuse To Have Some Tart
Ever since I’m back from Paris the most attractive dish I keep making is tart. “Why won’t you make Tarte Aux Pommes for us?” I keep hearing. There’s no reason why not. It’s very simple and so delicious. I expected that after one batch there will be more requests so I made enough dough to last for 4 tarts, at least. Also it was a first time for me using the food processor for the dough. Until then I always made... Read More
Few Last Days In France, Bretagne and Berlin
My few last days in France I spent travelling to Rennes, the capital city of Bretagne (Brittany) region, north-west of France. It was very interesting travelling experience for me, because I used ‘covoiturage‘ (car-pooling) to get there and stayed at Enora’s place during my stay there, using Couch-Surfing. It was very nice because I was travelling alone and that way I could meet new people and travel more economically. As soon as... Read More
Weekend in Lyon
I had a very cool weekend with Marie-Aimée in Lyon. It’s a beautiful city in the Rhône-Alpes region in France. It has its own cuisine identity which is very different than the Parisian style. It’s all about good home cooking and pork products. I was very excited about visiting this area, especially after learning about it in our Menu Regional Rhône-Alpes at school. Unfortunately Lyon, like Paris, is a bit empty on August. Almost all... Read More
London – Chapter One: Street Food
Just before the Olympic games started in London this year I took the express Eurostar train to visit my cousin Ben in London for a week. It was so nice, I got there just in time for the “quite before the storm”. First chapter about London will be dedicated to London’s street food. It’s everywhere! The streets and markets are packed with all kinds of food stalls, especially if you arrive from France, where there’s almost... Read More
Bordeaux Field Trip – Five Main Meals
For our final trip the Ferrandi course we were taken to Bordeaux the capital of wine! Trip lasted three days which is a fair amount of time to go around the rural and country and find local produce and farms with the knowledge of our chefs. But! After all, we are cuisine students, and for me the cuisine comes first. This is why this post is dedicated for the fives meals we had out and all the rest of the trip points of interest will have a separate... Read More
Paris and Vienna Christmas Break
I’m back in Paris. Had a really nice holiday week in the city and on the way back from Tel Aviv I had a stop-over in Vienna, where I spent just a few hours between flights and froze my ass off. The feeling I got from the short time spending there is that they love their Mozarts chocolates. Also found a huge size Toblerone bar Was just before Chirtmas day so the Christmas Market was at its peak. Many sugary goods but I couldn’t figure... Read More
Hanukkah at Home
I did’t stay for a long time in Tel-Aviv but we had a really nice family Hanukkah dinner. Everyone brought something and it turned out to be sort of a dairy dinner for some reason. This is why I made some tarts, everyone loves to nibble on these warm pastries. I used our kitchen’s marble to prepare the Pâte sablée, found out it was pretty high for me, how did I not notice that before? Moreover, we haven’t got the basic metallic... Read More
My Hannukah Foie Gras
Before Christmas break we had the chance to privately purchase a lobe of foie gras and make a tarrine to take home on the vacation. Oddly Rob and I were the only ones who eventually made it in our group. In Anglo B everyone’s signed up for this so they had a whole class dedicated to preparing the foie gras, we made it in the second day of the restaurant service that week. Chef Sebastian printed out 4 different recipes for us and I decided... Read More
Christmas Log Cake
Christmas is getting closer and this Monday we had our last pastry class before the holiday break. The famous known Christmas cake is Buche de Noël which means the log of Christmas and gives me the first opportunity to put the ‘e’ with the two dots enhancement mark. We already had it as a dessert in the cafeteria so I knew what it was about but it’s nothing I could imaging they’re making for Christmas. All I heard about... Read More
Thanksgiving Dinner
Thanksgiving at Adrian’s was an interesting culinary get together. We all made thanksgiving dishes. There was a turkey, stuffings, pumpkin pie, cranberries sauce.. But due to lack of vegetable dishes planned I was asked to bring a salad. After some french first courses including terrines and charcuterie everyone was waiting for the main course – the turkey. It took a while, rotating in the rotisserie. This is when I took out the salad... Read More
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