https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1022268771480821760 You told me about Guerrilla Tacos. I left the city of angels after two odd decades. I returned for a visit last June. You spoke to our scholarly assembly. Most of us were outsiders. You dissolved us of notions of high and low. You told us about Guerrilla Tacos. It was fine dining but… Continue reading Golden impression
Month: July 2018
Chocolate education
Thanks to a recent acquisition, I turned today’s National Milk Chocolate Day into a teachable moment. According to The Sprinkles Baking Book, the bakery uses Tcho chocolate, among other brands. I visited that booth at the Fancy Food Show and came away with research material. My independent study is just a nibble today. I’ll use… Continue reading Chocolate education
Memorable ice cream
Along the lines of my tapioca time travel, I’m feeling nostalgic and curious about recent food holidays. For National Ice Cream Sundae Day, my thoughts turned to the classic sundae I remember eating at Friendly’s as a child. It looks just like this: https://www.instagram.com/p/BkA64ZNA9Ee National Coffee Milkshake Day made me think of the frappes my… Continue reading Memorable ice cream
Feeding mind and body
I was pleased to join author Noley Reid for a reading and conversation about her novel Pretend We Are Lovely. The novel is based on a family of four characters, each having a complicated relationship to food. The book contains numerous references to restaurants, grocery stores, home cooking, and baked goods. Carrot cupcakes figure prominently… Continue reading Feeding mind and body
New corporate cupcakes in D.C.
Two national corporations are entering the D.C. cupcake market. Kansas-based Smallcakes is a 200-store chain that opened in July in Arlington, Va. https://www.instagram.com/p/BlHKRC5H_Jj/ Pop-culture phenomenon Magnolia Bakery is opening at Union Station in the coming months. The executive chef points the way. https://www.instagram.com/p/BkdwTkmhn3n The bakery will occupy a high-traffic corner in the country’s second busiest… Continue reading New corporate cupcakes in D.C.
Cupcake emoji!
It’s World Emoji Day and activation of the cupcake emoji certainly means the world to me. It’s visible only on Twitter for desktop right now, but cause for celebration nonetheless. https://twitter.com/Cupcakology/status/1019231856699564032
Tapioca time travel
It’s National Tapioca Pudding Day, which makes me nostalgic. Early in my career, I had regular meetings at an historic L.A. restaurant that invented the French dip sandwich. I always got tapioca pudding at Philippe’s, where we held Newspaper Guild meetings. It was midway between our main papers in Long Beach and the San Fernando… Continue reading Tapioca time travel
Sugar cookie as cupcake canvas
Here are some cupcake incarnations for today’s National Sugar Cookie Day. During my Texas Cupcakes and Blue Sky trip, I bought a cupcake-shaped cookie cutter. Conceptually charming, if not perfectly practical. Alas, the cookies lose some of their shape when baked. At the Fancy Food Show, I learned about a newly released cupcake-flavored almond butter… Continue reading Sugar cookie as cupcake canvas
Flavor of cupcake
I haven’t blogged recently because I was getting ready for a New York trip to the Fancy Food Show. I’ve been here for five days, overexerting and overeating. And overthinking, as always. Right now, in 2018, an almond butter company is releasing a new flavor: cupcake. https://www.instagram.com/p/BkqUVgFhBbk/ It’s good and tastes like vanilla buttercream. Its… Continue reading Flavor of cupcake
Andrea Adleman | Cupcakologist 