Milk Bar, the dessert bar from New York City, is hosting a pop-up this week in Dallas. We tried pastry chef Christina Tosi's famed crack pie and it was pretty amazing.
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Andre Olivier really likes sweets. A Flatbush native who grew up and still lives in the area right around Brooklyn College, Olivier used to bake a lot as a kid, but his reign as the King of Desserts, as his friends and family called him, appeared to come to an end when he went to Carnegie Mellon to study civil engineering. After that, he got a job in construction management, specializing in demolition projects.
Even though his sister Simone got an ice cream maker for Christmas in 2017, and the two of them started to churn out quarts of the stuff together, Olivier didn t really have the time to focus on perfecting his craft. Then came the pandemic, and when Olivier got furloughed from his job last April, he decided to go all in, teaching himself the ice cream game and setting up his own small business
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Six hands-on young Indian bakers who bring scrumptious goodies and breads to sweet-toothed clients, show off their personal style, exchanging kitchen mitts for fashion gloves
“If they cannot have bread, let them eat cake!” Each time that I read this admittedly cliched misquote that the last French queen, Marie Antoinette, apparently never actually said, I think to myself, “Wouldn’t I just love to have them both?!” Greedy? Not so much! Just that there is something so life-affirming about the sight and smell of bread, that a fresh, fragrant loaf will make your spirits rise as surely as the yeast makes the dough rise to a sunny, earthy, golden hue. And as for cake…do I need to say anything more? Soft, gooey, crunchy, melty, pillowy, in all its various forms, cake, well, is just cake. Scrumptious, celebratory and guaranteed to ignite a state of happiness.