Chambre De Sucre are sugars handcrafted by one of the oldest family-owned businesses in Japan with the highest quality sugar possible. They are over 270 years old and have provided the Royal Family in Japan with their sugar since the time of the Shogun. Japanese artisans still use traditional methods to create this luxurious sugar for tea and coffee, or just to look at.
Something silly to start the week – Grant Achatz, a chef in the field of molecular gastronomy, has created an inventive new dessert at his 3-star Michelin restaurant, Alinea in Chicago. Diners can now feast upon an edible balloon made from dehydrated Granny Smith apples, filled with helium and served with a pin so it can be popped before it’s eaten. Read the rest of this entry »
If delighting in these pretty planet-like chocolates is wrong, I don’t want to be right.The creation of chocolatier L’éclat of the Righa Royal Hotel Japan, these chocolates come in a Solar System of flavors including Mercury (coconut mango), Venus (cream lemon), Earth (cacao), Mars (orange praline), Jupiter (vanilla), Saturn (rum raisin), Uranus (milk tea) and Neptune (capuccino).
