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The $1,000 Bagel

Sqwertz · 2007-11-07T23:47:44+00:00

This is just ridiculous: http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUKN0527738520071107 "The bagel is the creation of chef Frank Tujague of The Westin New York hotel..." Anybody can pile on a bunch of expensive (truffle), fufu (goji berry), and completely tasteless (gold leaf) ingredients onto a $1 bagel and call it a "creation". It's the equivalent of scatological performance art. You don't need to be a chef to come up with something as absurd as this. And goji berries are nasty! I wonder if they'll knock of 20% if I order one without goji. -sw

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Sqwertz
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7 November 2007, 23:47 UTC #1

This is just ridiculous:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUKN0527738520071107
"The bagel is the creation of chef Frank Tujague of The Westin
New York hotel..."
Anybody can pile on a bunch of expensive (truffle), fufu (goji
berry), and completely tasteless (gold leaf) ingredients onto a
$1 bagel and call it a "creation". It's the equivalent of
scatological performance art.
You don't need to be a chef to come up with something as absurd
as this. And goji berries are nasty! I wonder if they'll knock
of 20% if I order one without goji.
-sw

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Tara
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8 November 2007, 00:20 UTC #2

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 17:47:44 -0600, Sqwertz <[email hidden]>
Quoted message said:
This is just ridiculous
There is something very distasteful and unappetizing about the
practice of flinging expensive foodstuffs atop a
bagel/omelet/hamburger/whatever and declaring it the world's most
expensive example of the same. I'm sure it is good publicity for the
preparer, but it is not appealing.
How about the most delicious bagel? I bet a perfectly prepared,
baked, and toasted everything bagel topped with fresh and rich cream
cheese tastes better than some vulgar display.
Tara

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Tara
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8 November 2007, 00:20 UTC #3

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 17:47:44 -0600, Sqwertz <[email hidden]>
Quoted message said:
This is just ridiculous
There is something very distasteful and unappetizing about the
practice of flinging expensive foodstuffs atop a
bagel/omelet/hamburger/whatever and declaring it the world's most
expensive example of the same. I'm sure it is good publicity for the
preparer, but it is not appealing.
How about the most delicious bagel? I bet a perfectly prepared,
baked, and toasted everything bagel topped with fresh and rich cream
cheese tastes better than some vulgar display.
Tara

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James Silverton
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8 November 2007, 00:59 UTC #4

Tara wrote on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:20:59 -0500:
??>> This is just ridiculous
T> There is something very distasteful and unappetizing about
T> the practice of flinging expensive foodstuffs atop a
T> bagel/omelet/hamburger/whatever and declaring it the world's
T> most expensive example of the same. I'm sure it is good
T> publicity for the preparer, but it is not appealing.
T> How about the most delicious bagel? I bet a perfectly
T> prepared, baked, and toasted everything bagel topped with
T> fresh and rich cream cheese tastes better than some vulgar
T> display.
I agree! That, freshly baked and *not* toasted, possibly with
the addition of smoked salmon, is the most and I'm not a New
Yorker but an immigrant: from Scotland :-)!!
James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland
E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

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James Silverton
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8 November 2007, 00:59 UTC #5

Tara wrote on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:20:59 -0500:
??>> This is just ridiculous
T> There is something very distasteful and unappetizing about
T> the practice of flinging expensive foodstuffs atop a
T> bagel/omelet/hamburger/whatever and declaring it the world's
T> most expensive example of the same. I'm sure it is good
T> publicity for the preparer, but it is not appealing.
T> How about the most delicious bagel? I bet a perfectly
T> prepared, baked, and toasted everything bagel topped with
T> fresh and rich cream cheese tastes better than some vulgar
T> display.
I agree! That, freshly baked and *not* toasted, possibly with
the addition of smoked salmon, is the most and I'm not a New
Yorker but an immigrant: from Scotland :-)!!
James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland
E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

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Wayne Boatwright
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8 November 2007, 01:01 UTC #6

Oh pshaw, on Wed 07 Nov 2007 05:20:59p, Tara meant to say...
<snip>
Quoted message said:
How about the most delicious bagel? I bet a perfectly prepared,
baked, and toasted everything bagel topped with fresh and rich cream
cheese tastes better than some vulgar display.
Tara
You bet it does, Tara. That's precisely what I had for breakfast at the
office this morning. I keep fresh cream cheese in the office fridge, and
pick up a fresh bagel most mornings on my way to the office.
--
Wayne Boatwright
(to e-mail me direct, replace cox dot net with gmail dot com)
______________________________________________________________
Modem: What landscapers do to dem lawns.

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Wayne Boatwright
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8 November 2007, 01:01 UTC #7

Oh pshaw, on Wed 07 Nov 2007 05:20:59p, Tara meant to say...
<snip>
Quoted message said:
How about the most delicious bagel? I bet a perfectly prepared,
baked, and toasted everything bagel topped with fresh and rich cream
cheese tastes better than some vulgar display.
Tara
You bet it does, Tara. That's precisely what I had for breakfast at the
office this morning. I keep fresh cream cheese in the office fridge, and
pick up a fresh bagel most mornings on my way to the office.
--
Wayne Boatwright
(to e-mail me direct, replace cox dot net with gmail dot com)
______________________________________________________________
Modem: What landscapers do to dem lawns.

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Sheldon
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8 November 2007, 01:53 UTC #8

Wayne Boatwright said:
Oh pshaw, on Wed 07 Nov 2007 05:20:59p, Tara meant to say...
<snip>
Quoted message said:
How about the most delicious bagel? I bet a perfectly prepared,
baked, and toasted everything bagel topped with fresh and rich cream
cheese tastes better than some vulgar display.
Quoted message said:
Tara
You bet it does, Tara. That's precisely what I had for breakfast at the
office this morning. I keep fresh cream cheese in the office fridge, and
pick up a fresh bagel most mornings on my way to the office.
I didn't know you live in NYC... there are no bagels anywhere else,
and certainly not fresh... more than an hour out of the oven it ain't
fresh.
Fresh cream cheese in the office fridge...
ahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. . . .
you never tasted fresh cream cheese... but so what, you never ate a
bagel.

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Sheldon
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8 November 2007, 01:53 UTC #9

Wayne Boatwright said:
Oh pshaw, on Wed 07 Nov 2007 05:20:59p, Tara meant to say...
<snip>
Quoted message said:
How about the most delicious bagel? I bet a perfectly prepared,
baked, and toasted everything bagel topped with fresh and rich cream
cheese tastes better than some vulgar display.
Quoted message said:
Tara
You bet it does, Tara. That's precisely what I had for breakfast at the
office this morning. I keep fresh cream cheese in the office fridge, and
pick up a fresh bagel most mornings on my way to the office.
I didn't know you live in NYC... there are no bagels anywhere else,
and certainly not fresh... more than an hour out of the oven it ain't
fresh.
Fresh cream cheese in the office fridge...
ahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. . . .
you never tasted fresh cream cheese... but so what, you never ate a
bagel.

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Dee.Dee
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8 November 2007, 02:02 UTC #10

"Wayne Boatwright" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...
Quoted message said:
Oh pshaw, on Wed 07 Nov 2007 05:20:59p, Tara meant to say...
<snip>
Quoted message said:
How about the most delicious bagel? I bet a perfectly prepared,
baked, and toasted everything bagel topped with fresh and rich cream
cheese tastes better than some vulgar display.
Tara
You bet it does, Tara. That's precisely what I had for breakfast at the
office this morning. I keep fresh cream cheese in the office fridge, and
pick up a fresh bagel most mornings on my way to the office.
--
Wayne Boatwright
That's exactly what I'm having for breakfast tomorrow morning.
DH is just about home -- 1/2 hour to go -- Besides bottles of wine from our
favorite wine store in NJ, roasted coffee from Greencastle, Pennsylvania ,
bittersweet Ghiradelli chocolate from TJ's and newly found Kerrybrook butter
and WheatMontana flour from Wegmans, Bethlehem and WheatMontana , he's got
3 dozen bagels from my absolutely favorite bagel place in Connecticut. The
only place he missed in Calandra's in Fairfield (recommended by Boron) for
the sfogliatella - another time.
I just gotta love that guy!
Dee Dee

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Dee.Dee
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8 November 2007, 02:02 UTC #11

"Wayne Boatwright" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...
Quoted message said:
Oh pshaw, on Wed 07 Nov 2007 05:20:59p, Tara meant to say...
<snip>
Quoted message said:
How about the most delicious bagel? I bet a perfectly prepared,
baked, and toasted everything bagel topped with fresh and rich cream
cheese tastes better than some vulgar display.
Tara
You bet it does, Tara. That's precisely what I had for breakfast at the
office this morning. I keep fresh cream cheese in the office fridge, and
pick up a fresh bagel most mornings on my way to the office.
--
Wayne Boatwright
That's exactly what I'm having for breakfast tomorrow morning.
DH is just about home -- 1/2 hour to go -- Besides bottles of wine from our
favorite wine store in NJ, roasted coffee from Greencastle, Pennsylvania ,
bittersweet Ghiradelli chocolate from TJ's and newly found Kerrybrook butter
and WheatMontana flour from Wegmans, Bethlehem and WheatMontana , he's got
3 dozen bagels from my absolutely favorite bagel place in Connecticut. The
only place he missed in Calandra's in Fairfield (recommended by Boron) for
the sfogliatella - another time.
I just gotta love that guy!
Dee Dee

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Wayne Boatwright
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8 November 2007, 02:26 UTC #12

Oh pshaw, on Wed 07 Nov 2007 07:02:57p, Dee.Dee meant to say...
Quoted message said:

"Wayne Boatwright" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...
Quoted message said:
Oh pshaw, on Wed 07 Nov 2007 05:20:59p, Tara meant to say...
<snip>
Quoted message said:
How about the most delicious bagel? I bet a perfectly prepared,
baked, and toasted everything bagel topped with fresh and rich cream
cheese tastes better than some vulgar display.
Tara
You bet it does, Tara. That's precisely what I had for breakfast at
the office this morning. I keep fresh cream cheese in the office
fridge, and pick up a fresh bagel most mornings on my way to the
office.
--
Wayne Boatwright
That's exactly what I'm having for breakfast tomorrow morning.
DH is just about home -- 1/2 hour to go -- Besides bottles of wine from
our favorite wine store in NJ, roasted coffee from Greencastle,
Pennsylvania , bittersweet Ghiradelli chocolate from TJ's and newly
found Kerrybrook butter and WheatMontana flour from Wegmans, Bethlehem
and WheatMontana , he's got 3 dozen bagels from my absolutely favorite
bagel place in Connecticut. The only place he missed in Calandra's in
Fairfield (recommended by Boron) for the sfogliatella - another time.
I just gotta love that guy!
Dee Dee
Aw heck, I'd send him back to Calandra's for sfogliatella before he gets in
the door! :-)
--
Wayne Boatwright
(to e-mail me direct, replace cox dot net with gmail dot com)
______________________________________________________________
Modem: What landscapers do to dem lawns.

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Wayne Boatwright
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8 November 2007, 02:26 UTC #13

Oh pshaw, on Wed 07 Nov 2007 07:02:57p, Dee.Dee meant to say...
Quoted message said:

"Wayne Boatwright" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...
Quoted message said:
Oh pshaw, on Wed 07 Nov 2007 05:20:59p, Tara meant to say...
<snip>
Quoted message said:
How about the most delicious bagel? I bet a perfectly prepared,
baked, and toasted everything bagel topped with fresh and rich cream
cheese tastes better than some vulgar display.
Tara
You bet it does, Tara. That's precisely what I had for breakfast at
the office this morning. I keep fresh cream cheese in the office
fridge, and pick up a fresh bagel most mornings on my way to the
office.
--
Wayne Boatwright
That's exactly what I'm having for breakfast tomorrow morning.
DH is just about home -- 1/2 hour to go -- Besides bottles of wine from
our favorite wine store in NJ, roasted coffee from Greencastle,
Pennsylvania , bittersweet Ghiradelli chocolate from TJ's and newly
found Kerrybrook butter and WheatMontana flour from Wegmans, Bethlehem
and WheatMontana , he's got 3 dozen bagels from my absolutely favorite
bagel place in Connecticut. The only place he missed in Calandra's in
Fairfield (recommended by Boron) for the sfogliatella - another time.
I just gotta love that guy!
Dee Dee
Aw heck, I'd send him back to Calandra's for sfogliatella before he gets in
the door! :-)
--
Wayne Boatwright
(to e-mail me direct, replace cox dot net with gmail dot com)
______________________________________________________________
Modem: What landscapers do to dem lawns.

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Dee.Dee
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8 November 2007, 04:20 UTC #14

"Wayne Boatwright" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >>>
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
You bet it does, Tara. That's precisely what I had for breakfast at
the office this morning. I keep fresh cream cheese in the office
fridge, and pick up a fresh bagel most mornings on my way to the
office.
--
Wayne Boatwright
That's exactly what I'm having for breakfast tomorrow morning.
DH is just about home -- 1/2 hour to go -- Besides bottles of wine from
our favorite wine store in NJ, roasted coffee from Greencastle,
Pennsylvania , bittersweet Ghiradelli chocolate from TJ's and newly
found Kerrybrook butter and WheatMontana flour from Wegmans, Bethlehem
and WheatMontana , he's got 3 dozen bagels from my absolutely favorite
bagel place in Connecticut. The only place he missed in Calandra's in
Fairfield (recommended by Boron) for the sfogliatella - another time.
I just gotta love that guy!
Dee Dee
Aw heck, I'd send him back to Calandra's for sfogliatella before he gets
in
the door! :-)
--
Wayne Boatwright
That was my first thought, Wayne! :-))))
Dee Dee

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Dee.Dee
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8 November 2007, 04:20 UTC #15

"Wayne Boatwright" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >>>
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
You bet it does, Tara. That's precisely what I had for breakfast at
the office this morning. I keep fresh cream cheese in the office
fridge, and pick up a fresh bagel most mornings on my way to the
office.
--
Wayne Boatwright
That's exactly what I'm having for breakfast tomorrow morning.
DH is just about home -- 1/2 hour to go -- Besides bottles of wine from
our favorite wine store in NJ, roasted coffee from Greencastle,
Pennsylvania , bittersweet Ghiradelli chocolate from TJ's and newly
found Kerrybrook butter and WheatMontana flour from Wegmans, Bethlehem
and WheatMontana , he's got 3 dozen bagels from my absolutely favorite
bagel place in Connecticut. The only place he missed in Calandra's in
Fairfield (recommended by Boron) for the sfogliatella - another time.
I just gotta love that guy!
Dee Dee
Aw heck, I'd send him back to Calandra's for sfogliatella before he gets
in
the door! :-)
--
Wayne Boatwright
That was my first thought, Wayne! :-))))
Dee Dee

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Little Malice
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8 November 2007, 04:31 UTC #16

One time on Usenet said:
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 17:47:44 -0600, Sqwertz <[email hidden]>
Quoted message said:
This is just ridiculous
There is something very distasteful and unappetizing about the
practice of flinging expensive foodstuffs atop a
bagel/omelet/hamburger/whatever and declaring it the world's most
expensive example of the same. I'm sure it is good publicity for the
preparer, but it is not appealing.
How about the most delicious bagel? I bet a perfectly prepared,
baked, and toasted everything bagel topped with fresh and rich cream
cheese tastes better than some vulgar display.
A fresh onion bagel with plain cream cheese is sooo good. Why eat gold
leaf? Pretty poo? Weird...
--
Jani in WA

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Little Malice
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8 November 2007, 04:31 UTC #17

One time on Usenet said:
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 17:47:44 -0600, Sqwertz <[email hidden]>
Quoted message said:
This is just ridiculous
There is something very distasteful and unappetizing about the
practice of flinging expensive foodstuffs atop a
bagel/omelet/hamburger/whatever and declaring it the world's most
expensive example of the same. I'm sure it is good publicity for the
preparer, but it is not appealing.
How about the most delicious bagel? I bet a perfectly prepared,
baked, and toasted everything bagel topped with fresh and rich cream
cheese tastes better than some vulgar display.
A fresh onion bagel with plain cream cheese is sooo good. Why eat gold
leaf? Pretty poo? Weird...
--
Jani in WA

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ravenlynne
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8 November 2007, 05:54 UTC #18

Wayne Boatwright said:
Oh pshaw, on Wed 07 Nov 2007 07:02:57p, Dee.Dee meant to say...
Quoted message said:
"Wayne Boatwright" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...
Quoted message said:
Oh pshaw, on Wed 07 Nov 2007 05:20:59p, Tara meant to say...
<snip>
> How about the most delicious bagel? I bet a perfectly prepared,
> baked, and toasted everything bagel topped with fresh and rich cream
> cheese tastes better than some vulgar display.
>
> Tara
>
You bet it does, Tara. That's precisely what I had for breakfast at
the office this morning. I keep fresh cream cheese in the office
fridge, and pick up a fresh bagel most mornings on my way to the
office.
--
Wayne Boatwright
That's exactly what I'm having for breakfast tomorrow morning.
DH is just about home -- 1/2 hour to go -- Besides bottles of wine from
our favorite wine store in NJ, roasted coffee from Greencastle,
Pennsylvania , bittersweet Ghiradelli chocolate from TJ's and newly
found Kerrybrook butter and WheatMontana flour from Wegmans, Bethlehem
and WheatMontana , he's got 3 dozen bagels from my absolutely favorite
bagel place in Connecticut. The only place he missed in Calandra's in
Fairfield (recommended by Boron) for the sfogliatella - another time.
I just gotta love that guy!
Dee Dee
Aw heck, I'd send him back to Calandra's for sfogliatella before he gets in
the door! :-)
:drools: I love that stuff. There's a recipe on the Ciao Italia
website...wonder if it's as good as the real thing...
--
-Gina in Italy
http://www.myspace.com/ravenlynne1975
I'm a blogger: http://ravenwolflodge.blogspot.com

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ravenlynne
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8 November 2007, 05:54 UTC #19

Wayne Boatwright said:
Oh pshaw, on Wed 07 Nov 2007 07:02:57p, Dee.Dee meant to say...
Quoted message said:
"Wayne Boatwright" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...
Quoted message said:
Oh pshaw, on Wed 07 Nov 2007 05:20:59p, Tara meant to say...
<snip>
> How about the most delicious bagel? I bet a perfectly prepared,
> baked, and toasted everything bagel topped with fresh and rich cream
> cheese tastes better than some vulgar display.
>
> Tara
>
You bet it does, Tara. That's precisely what I had for breakfast at
the office this morning. I keep fresh cream cheese in the office
fridge, and pick up a fresh bagel most mornings on my way to the
office.
--
Wayne Boatwright
That's exactly what I'm having for breakfast tomorrow morning.
DH is just about home -- 1/2 hour to go -- Besides bottles of wine from
our favorite wine store in NJ, roasted coffee from Greencastle,
Pennsylvania , bittersweet Ghiradelli chocolate from TJ's and newly
found Kerrybrook butter and WheatMontana flour from Wegmans, Bethlehem
and WheatMontana , he's got 3 dozen bagels from my absolutely favorite
bagel place in Connecticut. The only place he missed in Calandra's in
Fairfield (recommended by Boron) for the sfogliatella - another time.
I just gotta love that guy!
Dee Dee
Aw heck, I'd send him back to Calandra's for sfogliatella before he gets in
the door! :-)
:drools: I love that stuff. There's a recipe on the Ciao Italia
website...wonder if it's as good as the real thing...
--
-Gina in Italy
http://www.myspace.com/ravenlynne1975
I'm a blogger: http://ravenwolflodge.blogspot.com

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Dee.Dee
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8 November 2007, 14:11 UTC #20

"ravenlynne" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...
from Wayne:
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
Aw heck, I'd send him back to Calandra's for sfogliatella before he gets
in the door! :-)
:drools: I love that stuff. There's a recipe on the Ciao Italia
website...wonder if it's as good as the real thing...
--
-Gina in Italy
Thanks for letting me know she had a site; if I knew it, I'd forgotten. I
know I'd never make this, any more than I'd make puff pastry.
DH did check at Trader Joe's in Darien, CT and found that they carry the
all-butter puff pastry; however, not enough available ice in the car to risk
bringing it home without deterioration.
Next week on a trip to Baltimore (they have a Little Italy where we'll be) I
would love to find a bakery where they carry sfogliatella.
But I don't see anything so far googling it.
Dee Dee

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