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i am a terrible, terrible blogger

Posted in crawfish, fruit, gelato, New Orleans, Sucré on June 28, 2010 | 6 Comments »

OR, the antics I’ve been up to in the time we’ve spent apart. The last time I was here, I wrote about coffee inebriation and an arguably glorious chunk of sundried tomato on a fairly tasty bagel. That was, by all accounts, NOT a great way to unwittingly enter what would turn out to be [...]

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sucré for the holidays

Posted in chocolate, dessert, New Orleans, Sucré on November 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Just in time for the holiday season, Sucré has come out with a collection of special bonbons that uphold the shop’s tradition of meticulously crafted, enticingly whimsical chocolates. They sent me this pretty little box from their Sugar & Spice collection, and I’ll be very pleasantly surprised if I have some left by the time [...]

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Food Porn Friday

Posted in dessert, Food Porn Friday, lemon, raspberry, Sucré on August 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »

For those of you who don’t know, I’ve been fortunate enough to intern in the confection studio at Sucré, New Orleans’ best dessert boutique. I make frequent stops at the storefront to stock up on their art-like chocolates and staggeringly beautiful entremets, and working in the kitchen lets me see the assembly, which is almost [...]

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pretty pastries from a most venerable viennoiserie

Posted in almond, breakfast, chocolate, croissant, New Orleans, scone, snack, Sucré, Tariq Hanna on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I debated whether to post these photos at all, but as I leafed through some photos I’ve taken in the past few months, I decided I wanted to share. Maybe it’s the fact that I spent the morning racing around to get things squared away for my trip to Paris tomorrow without the power of [...]

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superlative summer snacking

Posted in almond, chocolate, cinnamon, gelato, ice cream, La Divina Gelateria, New Orleans, peanut butter, pepper, Sucré, vanilla on June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The sweltering, humid New Orleans heat is a thing that requires very particular, sometimes desperate measures. This isn’t just the hottest season of the year, as it is everywhere else (except Australia, where it’s cold this time of year – hard to imagine!?); it’s the time of year when you might see a line at [...]

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