The essence of a thoughtful spring menu is bringing the table to life with flavorful color!
Promise less, deliver more.
Desserts are my life - making them, eating them, and teaching others how to prepare them perfectly.
Once you have a chocolate-chip cookie with whole-wheat flour, you never go back.
I see City Perch as a destination restaurant.
The Governors Ball is like a big birthday party, and all these stars are like excited kids running around - 'Oooo, look at my pretty new dress!' And what's the best, most fun surprise at a birthday party? When the cake comes out!
Meringue allows me to cut out flour in a lot of desserts and make them lighter. It's just about my favorite thing to work with.
When I was four and my sister six, we got a Susie Homemaker oven for our birthdays.
Sugar is my friend, not my love. I always season sugar with a bit of acid or salt. Listen to your tongue.
Any opportunity I get to melt butter, I continue on to the 'noisette' stage.
Baking is both an art and a science.
The composition of my desserts is taken care of by the farmers' market.
If someone wants to order a cake, I might say, 'OK, when do you want to eat it? What time are your guests arriving? 6 P.M.? So you might be done with dinner around 8:30? Fine, you can pick up the cake at 4. Any earlier than that, it won't be good, it won't be fresh.'
I learned that things taste better on pretty plates.
I'd rather bake 14 times a day than bake one time a day and have all the bakers go home, and then everything's 14 hours old by the time anyone eats it. No.
Grandma played a taste test game with my sister and me when I was 3 years old. She would blindfold us and have us guess what was on the spoon: the first flavors I got were strawberry - then coffee!
Truth is, I love to play bartender and assist my husband at the BBQ.
I'm big on breakfast.
While they're still warm, I like to sandwich a chocolate chip cookie with raspberry stracchiatella gelato.
I want to open a destination place where you go for the best chocolate chip cookie you've ever had in your life, the biggest champagne list ever, the best fruit tarts you've tasted.
