by Ko Akasaka | Oct 26, 2016
The sun is still quite warm, but the air has definitely gotten cooler and crisper over the past week. Halloween is around the corner and bright orange pumpkins are everywhere – in grocery stores, farmers markets and at the neighbor’s front door. Where I live, summer...
by Ko Akasaka | Oct 16, 2016
I love madeleines and enjoy them any time of day… at tea/coffee break, after meals (even before), or as a late-night snack. These simple, soft, spongy mini-cakes are made with a buttery whole-egg batter, accented with honey and lemon or orange. Madeleines have...
by Ko Akasaka | Sep 29, 2016
Cannelés are a specialty of the southwest of France. The petite cakes were possibly first made before the French Revolution by cloistered nuns in Bordeaux. Today they are making a resurgence – not just in Bordeaux, but all over France and in French bakeries across...
by Ko Akasaka | Aug 31, 2016
I live 30 miles south of San Francisco in the area known as Silicon Valley. It is famous as the location of large and small IT companies’ headquarters: Google, Yahoo, Facebook, LinkedIn, HP, Apple, you name it. It does not sound like the center of the organic food...
by Ko Akasaka | Aug 24, 2016
Serious chocolate fun has been spreading across the land, but everybody is talking about dark chocolate today – 65%, 72%, 82%, single origin and so on. Higher cacao content is a luxury food fashion. From bakers, dessert book authors and chocolate makers, so many...
