So Good : The Magazine of Haute Pâtisserie

[Chris Hennes]

I just got an e-mail offer for So Good: The Magazine of Haute Pâtisserie from Chef Rubber: does anyone know anything about this magazine?

[gfron1]

got the same offer and I thought, "$10 for a subscription! Wow! Cool! Okay." Then I realized it was $10 per issue...no thanks until someone tells me its worth it.

[Chris Hennes]

Exactly. I got the sense from the ad that this might be a new magazine. Seems like a tough sell to me...

[gfron1]

I guess my other thing is that I keep getting these new cool mags and never have time to make anything from them. I can find enough eye candy on blogs. So, like you, I'd love to hear from others if its worth anything.

[Tri2Cook]

I got the email too. Have no idea what the magazine is like. If you can order a single issue for $10, I might check it out. If I have to commit to a subscription at $10 an issue without having seen it... no thanks.

[hapacooking]

Yes I received the same email and then looked at it a bit closer and then realized that it cost $7.80 for shipping and an additional $5.00 for Chef Rubber's "handing charge". Thats $22+ for a single issue, no thanks

[tan319]

It's a good ,good looking mag, people!!!

#1 has a load of recipes from Natura ( it appears) Ramon Marato, a lot of up and coming in both

Edited July 11, 2009 by tan319 (log)

[Lisa Shock]

I was able to buy a copy from Chef Rubber's booth at the World Pastry Forum for $10 cash. It has a substantial hard paper cover, lots of photos plus in-depth interviews and recipes. I like it. Dunno if I can afford to subscribe at $22 a pop, though. My guess is that CR is shipping in special padded envelopes, thus the handling fee.

I was lucky enough to get my copy autographed by Albert Adria, with whom I had several interesting late-night conversations. So, my copy has special meaning to me and I will admit a bit of bias.

[tan319]

I'll second Lisa's opinion.

I just received both of the available issues and am VERY impressed!!!

# 1 with the Albert Adria interview ( one that I've never seen) right when "Natura" was published and must have been done fairly close to when he resigned from el Bulli.

#2 has an interesting interview with Alex Stupak of wd-50 along with his recipe for caramelised brioche that is is prepared with transglutaminase (Activa, also referred to as "Meat Glue" 'round here).

Dominique Ansel of Restaurant Daniel, too many to name.

Thicker then an issue of Art Culinaire ( x2), great photos and a GREAT info/recipe to advert ratio, 19 bucks an issue + shipping was well worth it.

[Lior]

I just got an email that the price is 20 Euro plus 15 Euro for shipping. I thought it was for a year subscription but now realize how naive and foolish I was!! OUCH!

[tan319]

Get it from chefrubber.com

19.95 + U.S> shipping

Worth it!

( although Israel is a different story, I suppose)

Still a fine mag/book

Edited February 16, 2010 by tan319 (log)

[YetiChocolates]

I was reading in the education section of Albert Ulster's website and got turned onto the "So Good" magazine and did a google search and found this thread. While looking through the magazine's website there were some recipes and one was for a nougat from Michel Willaume. There was a link to his website and I clicked on it http://www.mwpastry.com/en/index_en.php and on the home page it shows a chocolate sculpture...and I thought I would pick all of your brains as to how the heck he got that amazing wood grain in a sculpture piece? I've seen how to do wood grains on transfer sheets, but not sculptures. I was in awe! Any ideas???

[teonzo]

There was a link to his website and I clicked on it http://www.mwpastry.com/en/index_en.php and on the home page it shows a chocolate sculpture...and I thought I would pick all of your brains as to how the heck he got that amazing wood grain in a sculpture piece? I've seen how to do wood grains on transfer sheets, but not sculptures. I was in awe! Any ideas???

The layers seem quite parallel, so I suppose he did something like this:

- pour a medium-thin layer of white chocolate in the big mold;

- wait until it starts to set, shake the mold to give some ondulations to the surface just to not get it completely plain;

- pour a thin layer of milk chocolate (the ratio white/milk seems like 3/1) in the big mold;

- wait until it starts to set, shake the mold to give some ondulations to the surface just to not get it completely plain;

- repeat.

The "wood effect" is given mainly by the curves of the surfaces from the angle of this photo, if they took a frontal photo you would just see parallel layers.

Teo

[YetiChocolates]

The layers seem quite parallel, so I suppose he did something like this:

- pour a medium-thin layer of white chocolate in the big mold;

- wait until it starts to set, shake the mold to give some ondulations to the surface just to not get it completely plain;

- pour a thin layer of milk chocolate (the ratio white/milk seems like 3/1) in the big mold;

- wait until it starts to set, shake the mold to give some ondulations to the surface just to not get it completely plain;

- repeat.

The "wood effect" is given mainly by the curves of the surfaces from the angle of this photo, if they took a frontal photo you would just see parallel layers.

Teo

Aha! Thanks! He has WAY more patience than I do!