A Sweet Thread: Color Theories
One of my pet peeves as a pastry chef has always been when people add mint to a dessert plate, to add “color.” Well, brown, the color of many, many pastries is a color, my friends! It comes in about a zillion shades, too. And one of my pastry heroes, Emily Luchetti said it best: “Just because it exists in the universe doesn’t mean it belongs on a plate.” Another hero and opponent of mint, Pierre Herme says that American pastry chefs suffer from “the malady of the mint …
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