The tarte Tatin (tart ta-tan) was apparently named after the Tatin sisters who invented it by accident and served to their hotel guests anyway. It quickly became their signature dish. The technique is a puff pastry shell topped with fruit (usually apples) that have been caramelized in butter and sugar before the tart is baked. The tarte is then inverted onto a plate, with the pastry on the bottom.
Rolling Stone Magazine recently released their latest ‘list’, “The 100 Greatest Songwriters” rollingstone.com). Let me repeat that title, “The 100 Greatest Songwriters”. Their descriptive line states “From Brill Building tunesmiths to Punk poets, from Woody Guthrie to Max Martin, the visionaries who defined music history.”
Ah, Christmas! Here you come again, you saucy temptress. We know each other well, you and I. We’ve spent so many years together, both good and bad, happy and sad, flush with cash, or miserably penniless. I know you in all of your beauty, but I also know your dark side.
December babies, like myself, are all too aware of the deviousness of parents who tell you that your birthday is very important, but just so very near to Christmas. They’ll catch you on the flip side, they say, and presents will rain down upon you like … rain. They lie.
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