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Tenuta Vannulo

in Naples, Comfort, Dessert, Italy, The Milky Way, Italian 4 comments

Naples, Italy (The Joy of Food) — Buffalo mozzarella is the pinnacle of dairy: that wondrous thing somewhere between yogurt and custard and cottage cheese and ricotta. Somehow, it manages to be both solid and liquid at the same time. When cut, it will weep outwardly in a perfect river […]

Amy’s Ice Creams

in American, Austin, TX, Dessert, United States, The Milky Way 2 comments

Austin, TX (The Joy of Food) — To visit Amy’s Ice Creams is to buy ice cream from Cirque du Soleil, a place famous for their high-flying ice cream acrobatics, where team members (‘ice cream heroes’) are trained (yes, paid) to do things like hurl balls of ice cream into […]

Sarkis Pastry

in Breakfast and Pastry, Dessert, United States, Orange County, CA, Middle Eastern 4 comments

Orange County, CA (The Joy of Food) — Sarkis Pastry is the house that baklava built, a Near Eastern bakery specializing in every type of baklava found under the sun. There’s one walnut-filled baklava called “kul-wushkur” which translated from Arabic means “taste and give thanks to heaven,” a phrase that […]

Rosetta Bakery

in Breakfast and Pastry, Dessert, United States, Italian, Miami, FL 0 comments

Miami, FL (The Joy of Food) — Entire religions have been founded on miracles less profound than the Italian bombolone, a type of doughnut that’s deep-fried and then filled with custards, creams, or hazelnut (the mighty Nutella, of course). To find this type of fried carbo perfection in Miami Beach, […]

Fireman Derek's Bake Shop - key lime pie

Fireman Derek’s Bake Shop & Cafe

in American, Dessert, United States, The Milky Way, Miami, FL 0 comments

Miami, FL (The Joy of Food) — There is pie. And then there is Key lime pie. The Key lime is a special little fruit, substantial, acidic, and strongly fragrant, more in its aftertaste than in its first full-frontal hit. You could, I think, eat a whole lot of Key […]

Azucar - Abuela Maria: guava, cream cheese, Maria crackers

Azucar Ice Cream

in American, Dessert, United States, The Milky Way, Miami, FL 0 comments

Miami, FL (The Joy of Food) — Azucar Ice Cream Company is the brainchild of Suzy Batlle, a long-time banker who left the corporate world to open her own ice cream shop and make things like Burn in Hell, Fidel ice cream, one of many off-the-beaten path flavors found at […]

Cafe Sacher Wien

in Breakfast and Pastry, Austria, Austrian, Vienna, Dessert 0 comments

Vienna, Austria (The Joy of Food) — In Austria, one cannot live on strudel alone. To mix it up a little, there’s Sachertorte. Sachertorte is a chocolatey little sponge cake, or torte, with thin layers of apricot jam. Those who love fruity flavors mixed with chocolate will love this classic […]

Fauchon

in Paris, Breakfast and Pastry, Carbapalooza, Dessert, Drink, France, French 0 comments

Paris, France (The Joy of Food) — Of all the grand food emporiums and legendary patisseries of Paris, none is more grand or legendary than Fauchon. Fauchon is glam gourmet at its Parisian hot-pink finest. It might not look it today, but this all began in the 1800’s as a […]

Cafe-Konditorei Braun

in Breakfast and Pastry, Mondsee, Austria, Austrian, Dessert 0 comments

Mondsee, Austria (The Joy of Food) — Cafe Braun produces delicious strudel off the beaten path in the suburbs of Salzburg. You will probably get to Mondsee the same way everyone gets there — by way of a Sound of Music tour. Via this method, a pack of Lonely Goatherd-yodeling […]