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Yesterday, before school in the afternoon I passed by a German backery here close-by. I was taken by the beauty, variety, colors of what seemed scones but different, bigger and puffier as if the white fluted paper cups could not contain them. They still make what I used to like when I was a teenager, they call them "flames" _fiamma_, that is a sort of cookie-like basis on which twisted and ending in pyramidal apex soft chocolate cream is set covered by a thin harder layer of chocolate. I had one some time ago, but the taste was not the one I could remember, that is why I just look at them and think how good they are. As I will forever remember a patisserie in Paris, this to honor Martin. We bought some salted _they call them pies in England but it has nothing to do with them. On 3/22/07, MJ Walker <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > A delightful way of beginning the morning for me - it sounds perfect to > me. Is there a hidden reference to Francis Ponge in the "cream sponges"? > He was a poet who wished to give les choses their due. > Talking of cake,Gerald Schwarz referred to Proust's madeleine recently > as " those little macaroon cookies triggering M. Proust into raptures". > Well I'm sure that madeleines are not macaroons, which are made with > almonds. They are more like pound cake, fairly tasteless except for the > sugar, which is why they are so good to dunk. > mj > > Caleb Cluff wrote: > > >Red laminex and zinc piping are not our 'chief concerns' here, > >here in this kitchen of flies and yellow curling flypaper. > >The dead are currants dotted in panettone. > > > >A Methodist Ladies Cookbook on the bench > >relates the dangers of a sadness > >at the heart of the cake. > > > >Who fails a cake? > >Who leaves it, sighing, alone in a room at night? > >Can the love of a cake be spurned? > > > >In a corner of the room hums the deep > >deep freeze. Cream sponges sleep within, > >dreaming of spongy affairs, iced with comfort. > > > >Majorca, Vic. > >21-22/03/07 > > > > > > >============================================================================== > >The information contained in this email and any attachment is > confidential and > >may contain legally privileged or copyright material. It is intended > only for > >the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient of > this > >email, you are not permitted to disseminate, distribute or copy this > email or > >any attachments. If you have received this message in error, please > notify the > >sender immediately and delete this email from your system. The ABC does > not > >represent or warrant that this transmission is secure or virus free. > Before > >opening any attachment you should check for viruses. The ABC's liability > is > >limited to resupplying any email and attachments > > >============================================================================== > > > > > > > > -- > > The art of being civilized is the art of learning to read between the > lies. - Kenneth Rexroth >