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Turd Ferguson (Turdferguson)
le Vicomte
Username: Turdferguson
Post Number: 58
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 8:19 pm: |   |
They look good, but the bottom one seems to have a hair on it. Those nasty French.
Baba Booey! Baba Booey! Baba Booey! Baba B- |
Spoon Boy (Absinthespoon)
Absinthe Mafia
Username: Absinthespoon
Post Number: 353
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 6:37 pm: | |
Peter, are they as yummy as I am imagining?
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Moonman's friend (Wolfgang)
Absinthe Mafia
Username: Wolfgang
Post Number: 1021
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 4:31 pm: | |
"fabulous Forbidden Water (made with absinthe leaves and green anise)..."
Damn... And I tought I was the only one to wear such a perfume (home made with natural oils in a base of absinthe distillat). |
Jay & The Imp (Thegreenimp)
Absinthe Mafia
Username: Thegreenimp
Post Number: 402
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 12:45 pm: | |
I hope you brought enough for everybody.
I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I'm happy to state I've finally won out over it........Elwood. P. Dowd |
The Levitating Grin Salesman (Rimbaud)
le Duc
Username: Rimbaud
Post Number: 363
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 12:21 pm: | |
Nice picture! You're makin' me hungry & thirsty at the same time!
"Please pardon our appearance while we are levitating..." |
pierre verte (Petermarc)
Absinthe Mafia
Username: Petermarc
Post Number: 510
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 12:13 pm: | |
still life with macaroons |
Bob (I_b_puffin)
le Duc
Username: I_b_puffin
Post Number: 231
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 9:39 am: | |
For perfumes and cologne there is already one out, Lolita Lempicka which was mentioned a long time ago.
As for anise cookies, I will stick to my traditional springerle cookies.
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Dr. O (Dr_ordinaire)
Elitist Bastard
Username: Dr_ordinaire
Post Number: 482
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 5:38 am: | |
"Too bad it's not a wormwood/anise seed combination! "
Spoon boy may be onto somethingh there...
This is from the September edition of Vogue, describing a new high tech perfumery in Paris, Iunx:
"Pulling a lever here, pushing a button there, customers can test products like the fabulous Forbidden Water (made with absinthe leaves and green anise)..."
So, you Paris dwellers, you know what to bring Kallisti when you visit the Bay Area!
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pierre verte (Petermarc)
Absinthe Mafia
Username: Petermarc
Post Number: 509
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 3:42 am: | |
just up the hill from me...damn, my diet's shot to hell... |
Michael (Turangalila)
Mousquetaire
Username: Turangalila
Post Number: 28
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, September 21, 2003 - 11:17 pm: | |
Laudorée definitely has wonderful macaroons, but for those of you in Paris there's a place I'd like to suggest as far as other pastries go, or, at least, as far as chocolate tarts. It's right by our apartment, at 53 Rue Caulaincourt, and the pâtissier, Arnaud Larher, is absolutely extraordinary. The chocolate tarts are outlandishly perfect and I become desperate for them with regularity about a month after I've left Paris. The macaroons are also great, as are all of the other pastries I've tried there. He was voted top pastry chef in France for the year 2000, if I remember correctly.
The (not yet finished) website: http://www.arnaud-larher.com/ |
Spoon Boy (Absinthespoon)
Absinthe Mafia
Username: Absinthespoon
Post Number: 351
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, September 21, 2003 - 10:56 am: | |
Yes I remember Mrs. Verte approved when we said the macarons from Dallayou, while good, do not equal those from Ladurée.
I am filled with envy at the thought of l'heure verte with macarons d'anis. I hope they still make them next spring! |
pierre verte (Petermarc)
Absinthe Mafia
Username: Petermarc
Post Number: 508
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, September 21, 2003 - 10:40 am: | |
great call steve...my wife works almost on top of the ladurée on the champs elysées and will check it out tomorrow (this must be their new seasonal offering). macaroons from ladurée are the single best carry-out dessert in paris, and therefore, france, and therefore as was stated, the universe, and hardly any other shop's macaroon can even touch them. i can't even describe how addictive they are...it will be very interesting to serve them with a side of absinthe... tea time meets l'heure verte! |
vincent vega (Lord_stanley)
Mousquetaire
Username: Lord_stanley
Post Number: 8
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, September 21, 2003 - 8:23 am: | |
There's a lot of Italian pastries that use anise for flavoring. I remember when I was a kid that my mother had to go the local pharmacy to buy Spirit of Anise before doing her Christmas baking. That was the only place to get it in Canada at the time. I think that it's available in grocery stores now.
It's funny that most people would really like the different pastries but you'd get the occasional person that would grimace and say that it tasted like black licorice. Kind of the same reaction that you often get with absinthe or sambuca. |
Pastor of Muppets (Emmy)
Absinthe Mafia
Username: Emmy
Post Number: 240
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, September 21, 2003 - 6:59 am: | |
oooh... methinks i'll have to adjust my macaroon recipe :D |
Spoon Boy (Absinthespoon)
Absinthe Mafia
Username: Absinthespoon
Post Number: 350
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, September 21, 2003 - 5:57 am: | |
Ladurée is a fabulous pastry shop/salon de thé in Paris. Their macaroons are the no. 1 most delicious treat in the known universe. We like to go there for a smart lunch with all the rich ladies with their poodles and Lacroix shopping bags. I was just looking at their website:
www.laduree.fr
and it says they have a new flavor of macaroon, anise seed. Too bad it's not a wormwood/anise seed combination!
The color looks like Emmy's bread pudding:
If you go there, I highly recommend the cassis violet macaroons. |
