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Why is Julia Usher not mentioned anywhere on eGullet?

GlorifiedRice

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GlorifiedRice

GlorifiedRice

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I ran a search the other day for Julia Usher on eGullet and was genuinely shocked she has no posts about her.

 

She is fabulous!

 

She makes cookies that are artwork masterpieces.

 

Her videos speak for themselves

 

 

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Tri2Cook

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She's not mentioned anywhere on eGullet by me because I'd never heard of her until your post. Make's mentioning her kinda difficult.

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It's kinda like wrestling a gorilla... you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is tired.

Darienne

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I watched as far as the lip on the cylinder and gave up.  Fascinating stuff...but definitely not for me. 

 

(And it is Saturday which means laundry, meds, next week's breakfast assembly, soup making, pulled pork making, bed remaking, dog hair vacuuming, etc, etc...not time to sit and watch extended cookie making videos...:P )

 

But thanks for bringing this wonderful cookie maker to our attention. 

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Darienne

 

learn, learn, learn...

 

We live in hope. 

joiei

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who?

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Thanks for the Crepes

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I believe if I spent that much time on a sculpture, I would prefer to work in a more permanent medium. There's no denying that her work is amazing, though. I hope she's making money at it, but I suspect it may be more a labor of love.

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> ^ . . ^ <

 

 

Shalmanese

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6 hours ago, Thanks for the Crepes said:

I believe if I spent that much time on a sculpture, I would prefer to work in a more permanent medium. There's no denying that her work is amazing, though. I hope she's making money at it, but I suspect it may be more a labor of love.

 

Part of the reason I was drawn to cooking was the impermanence of the medium. I'm not much drawn to the structural elements of it but I can see the appeal, as someone who's spent many hours painstakingly making just a few scant ounces of a sauce. In cooking, you eat your failures and triumphs equally and there's something poetic about that.

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PS: I am a guy.

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Susie Q

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I salute her talent and patience. Her work is amazing but a bit too fussy for me. Rather than spend that much time on just a few cookies of one type I'd rather spend that time making a variety of cookies using different techniques. But then I'd choose my grandmothers 9x13 butter cake with case knife serrated trails in the burnt sugar icing over a "polished" cake any day.

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Yiannos

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This reminds me a lot of all those damn cake shows on TV, where they are more sculpting "edible" (I'm looking at you, fondant) items than making flavors and food people actually want to eat. 

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Tri2Cook

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On ‎2016‎-‎12‎-‎04 at 9:18 AM, Yiannos said:

This reminds me a lot of all those damn cake shows on TV, where they are more sculpting "edible" (I'm looking at you, fondant) items than making flavors and food people actually want to eat. 


Sometimes food can be both. Making a cake or a cookie look like something other than a cake or a cookie doesn't exclude the possibility of it being tasty.

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It's kinda like wrestling a gorilla... you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is tired.

Yiannos

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Oh yes totally agree, and I have no idea how these taste, but looking at them all I can think is "neat!" but I really want to think more "yum!" I guess. All that fine sugar and detail work just looks very dry and crunchy to me, but incredibly creative and artistic nonetheless.

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GlorifiedRice

GlorifiedRice

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Even a simple recipe is technical. I swear its like SNLs Anal Retentive Chef Phil Hartman

 

 

My question is, how do Germans make Lebkuchen without molasses?

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pastrygirl

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1 hour ago, GlorifiedRice said:

 

My question is, how do Germans make Lebkuchen without molasses?

 

Is there no molasses in Germany?  How about black treacle?

GlorifiedRice

GlorifiedRice

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2 hours ago, pastrygirl said:

 

Is there no molasses in Germany?  How about black treacle?

 

I looked that up on Amazon, its referred to as "Lyle's Black Treacle - Cane Molasses"

 

A search on Amazon Deutcheland reveals many brands of Molasses

https://www.amazon.de/s/ref=nb_sb_noss/258-6214015-9346204?__mk_de_DE=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Molasses

 

So I dont get it.

 

Even Japan has 3 different brands

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