{"id":124,"date":"2012-07-05T16:06:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T20:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=124"},"modified":"2012-07-05T16:07:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T20:07:29","slug":"pastries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"Pastries!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, who here likes pastries? Well, after &#8220;sampling&#8221; two of the offerings in our library, both in film and book format, I decided that\u00a0I like eating pastries more than making them. <a href=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/pastries.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-126\" title=\"pastries\" src=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/pastries-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/pastries-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/pastries-412x300.jpg 412w, https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/pastries.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the documentary film, &#8220;Kings of Pastry,&#8221; French pastry chefs compete for the coveted\u00a0Meilleurs Ouvriers de France award. The amazing sculptures they create are true artistry (although you wouldn&#8217;t be tempted to take a bite), and you\u00a0will be on the edge of your seat as they carry the delicate and fragile looking concoctions from room to room. Definitely not for the faint of heart.<\/p>\n<p>In Dalia Jurgensen&#8217;s &#8220;Spiced: a pastry chef&#8217;s true stories of trials by fire, after-hours exploits, and what really goes on in the kitchen,&#8221; you will also mostly realize what a lot of hard work it is to be a pastry chef. This somewhat racy memoir will leave you a bit tired and breathless.<\/p>\n<p>So, at the end of the day, I&#8217;ll stick to my day job, and leave the pastry making to the experts. And as I reach for a napolean I will appreciate what it takes to make these confections, and relish every bite.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, who here likes pastries? Well, after &#8220;sampling&#8221; two of the offerings in our library, both in film and book format, I decided that\u00a0I like eating pastries more than making them. In the documentary film, &#8220;Kings of Pastry,&#8221; French pastry chefs compete for the coveted\u00a0Meilleurs Ouvriers de France award. The amazing sculptures they create are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=124\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pastries!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-films","tag-kings-of-pastry-spiced-dalia-jurgensen-pastries"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}