more Austin Boston Chicago London ... Washington DC document.getElementById(base + curr).style.display= ""; February 04, 2005 Gothamist Cooks (Kind of) By the Book: Lutece's Chocolate Truffles The Lutece Cookbook , by Andre Soltner and Seymour Britchky (Random House, 1995) Last Valentine's day, Lutece served its final meal . Fortunately for us, Andre Soltner, Lutece's chef for 30 years, wrote The Lutece Cookbook after selling the restaurant in 1994. While most of the book's 333 recipes are not ones that we would ordinarily cook from (or, in the case of hot souffle of sea urchins, eat!), the book itself serves as an engaging history of the introduction of French food to the United States, worth perusing for inspiration and cooking from every so often. While most of Lutece's meals are much too fancy to be approached in this column, the chocolate truffles, which were traditionally served at Lutece around Christmastime, are shockingly easy to make (no thermometer!) and melt-in-your-mouth delicious. One thing Gothamist really enjoys is making candy for our friends and loved ones. They gasp when we tell them we made it ourselves! The hardest thing about making these truffles will be keeping it a secret that they are so easy! We hand-delivered a box of these truffles to our friends' birthday party, where they were described as "addictive" and "like portable chocolate mousse." Check out photos of the rapidly-disappearing morsels here For more truffle-making ideas, check out the recipes at | |
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