Kerry Beal

Our search (which was not fulfilled by last nights meal) was the find the Chinese food of @Alleguede's youth here in Paris. He is determined that the fat it's cooked in tastes different (and I suspect that is a big part of the difference).

Rodney went to a demo yesterday by the girl we took out to dinner with us - it was to show a 3D printer. Didn't see any others at the show. Lots of bean to bar equipment and lots of tempering machines. The lovely folks at one of the booths across from us were gold merchants from Switzerland - the had all sorts of gold leaf for decoration. A couple of nice packaging companies.

All they are prepared to let you eat

Chez Van

The Chef Cut people recognize the advantage of having their product on our table! Here is what they made us in about 1 minute start to finish this morning,

Testing the rum and raisin mentioned by @jmacnaughtan above. It's got RUM!

Here's the notice I got this morning - Greetings from Amazon.ca. You saved $95.29 with Amazon.ca's Pre-order Price Guarantee! The price of the item(s) decreased after you ordered them, and we gave you the lowest price. The following title(s) decreased in price: Modernist Bread: The Art and Science Price on order date: $532.47 Price charged at shipping: $437.18 Lowest price before release date: $437.18 Quantity: 1 Total Savings: $95.29 $95.29 is your total savings under our Pre-order Price Guarantee. Thanks for shopping at Amazon.ca, and we hope to see you again soon. So I guess at some point the price dropped and we didn't notice it. And just to really rub it in - this is Canadian dollars! Sorry guys. It was however - supposed to have shipped on October 24th.

Pretty much just corn. I much prefer the roasted barley tea I must say.

Shipping notice has arrived - Modernist Bread will arrive tomorrow - and the price was about $100 less than I had signed on for!

And yes there is a butter shortage - we noticed the signs in Metro

TicTac is bang on - butter with potatoes

chicken lamb for me beef for @Alleguede

we are out for dinner at la Rotounde - we are with Dinara Kasko - you may know her from Instagram. The look on Dinara's face when she saw her soup bowl was priceless! It's butternut and chestnut soup. @Alleguede chose pate.

Patience grasshopper

I appreciate the thread jacking. Stuck down here in the basement I don't get to see any of it!

Thanks for the heads up on the Rochoux rum and raisin / shall go in search!

It can cut just about anything!

Lunch

Water jet cutter

Water jet cutter

Breakfast

It was a caramel dessert. bit of sponge, bit of mousse, caramel glaze on the top.

Forgot to post this last night - this was our nightcap before bed. The perfect little entrement.

I think @Daniel D may have pointed out one the big issues there - the solid shelves. It's hard to get decent air circulation with solid shelves - I much prefer wires ones. If you can't swap them out for wire ones - perhaps putting some large cookie cooling racks on top of the solid shelves to encourage air circulation. Who suggested the cold room? Perhaps it's not as useful as they would lead you to believe as there may be a bit of shock happening when you pour the chocolate Into molds that are colder than they were before and causing some uncontrolled crystallization when the warm chocolate hits the cold mold.

Forgot to mention that I had a visit from @jmacnaughtan today at Salon - what a treat! He brought along a friend (and a lovely bottle) and they attended my tempering talk. Always nice to have moral support when one talks in front of people. The set up was a bit of a shit show - I heard 'if you had told us what you wanted we would have had it for you' several times - my thought was 'if you had read what I told you that I wanted then you would have had a better chance of having it for me' - but that was wasted thoughts. I took an old banner from Premier grinders and flung it over the top to write my little crystal chart on - 'oh no, no. no - look how bad that looks on the other side of the wall - we will get you some double sided tape so it doesn't show on the other side' (which they wouldn't have noticed if I hadn't pointed it out). The tape showed up about 15 minutes after my talk was over and the banner had long since been removed.