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Launch Party of Vendôme Macarons in Saks Fifth Avenue, New York City

Interior of Vendôme Macarons in Saks Fifth Avenue in Snacks

Last night was the launch party of Vendôme Macarons found in the luxurious department store, Saks Fifth Avenue‘s SnAKS in New York City. Being surrounded with the beautiful people, the fashionable, and a couple of socialites, you know you’re in a swanky [...]

Rosé and Macarons at Ladurée for its SoHo Opening Announcement

Ladurée’s window

Last Wednesday, Ladurée thrown an intimate party for a select group of VIPs to celebrate its (almost) one year anniversary and their official announcement (of the long rumored) opening in SoHo (to read more details at The New York Times’ article toward the end). Essentially, this SoHo boutique will be [...]

Mother’s Day Gift Ideas 2012

In case you haven’t checked your calendar, Mother’s Day is two Sundays from now – May 13, 2012! Just to give you some ideas what you may give for your beloved mom, here’s some food (prepared and ingredients) and wine ideas.

Edible Gifts

Modern Bite Bakery’s cookies

Modern Bite Bakery has a [...]

Homemade Macarons – à la Pierre Hermé

If you’ve been one of my longtime readers, you know I have an obsession with macarons. I admit I go insane over Pierre Hermé macarons. (When I landed in Paris for vacation last May, the top “must do things” on my first day was to go to any of Hermé’s boutiques and have his macarons [...]

Holiday Sweets Gift Guide 2011

Here’s the next edition of the holiday gift guide: it’s all about sweets. Chocolates, cakes, cookies, confections, and ice cream. Hopefully, you won’t go into a sugar high by just looking at the photos but these are a number of notable sweets that I like a lot.

Have thoughts of other brands or sweets I [...]

Ladurée in New York City

Ladurée

As of the past week or so, almost everyone in the Internet, food forums to respectable food websites talked about Ladurée. In case you haven’t caught up in my Parisian travels of last year (here’s my photo set of my stops to this brand’s patisserie as they have many locations in [...]

Ice Cream, Chocolates and Cookies: Chozen Ice Cream, Valrhona, Jin Patisserie, and Alégio’s Claudio Corallo

Note: This is a general post all about sweets I’ve eaten within the past several weeks just to catch up before my grad school schedule gets in the way…

Trio of Chozen ice cream flavors

Several weeks ago when we’re all suffering (in New York City, at least) from the blistering heat. [...]

Tate’s Bakeshop in Southampton, NY

Exterior and Interior

Last weekend when I attended Dan’s Taste of Two Forks in the Hamptons, I planned my visit around the Forks of Long Island by hitting the best stops whenever possible. One of them was Tate’s Bakeshop in Southampton. Why? I am a fan of Kathleen King’s (the owner/founder of [...]

Chocolate Gourmet’s Hot Box – “Damn Good” All The Way

Hot Stuff Box and its contents

My schedule is getting busier with meetings and events, I don’t have the time to bake a batch of brownies or cookies. I don’t even want to turn on my oven on in this disgusting, humid heat we’re going through in NYC.

To solve my [...]