Mocking Bird » Macarons http://www.mocking-bird.org/blog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:18:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Australian Gourmet Traveller Magazine http://www.mocking-bird.org/blog/2009/07/27/australian-gourmet-traveller-magazine/ http://www.mocking-bird.org/blog/2009/07/27/australian-gourmet-traveller-magazine/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:47:59 +0000 Amanda http://www.mocking-bird.org/blog/?p=350 Australian Gourmet Traveller magazine is not the sort of mag I would normally buy, as it’s ultimately about food. This July however, I could not resist as it was their annual French issue. The cover alone was enough for me to buy it, but flicking through it’s pages got me all excited for a whole issue full of fabulous Frenchiness.

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The cover is graced by beautiful photography of delicate pink macarons. You can read the article and recipe about how much the French love their macarons on the Gourmet Traveller website.

Another great article inside explains how to eat in Paris for under €10 and tells you exactly where to find each of the restaurants.

What I of course love about the magazine the most is the photographic style. Their food photography is divine and it makes me want to become someone who likes to cook. I really don’t, which makes me sad. Australian Gourmet Traveller may well just have to be one of the many fabulous, Aussie mags that my mum will have to send me!

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Blackberry and Quince macarons from Adrian Zumbo

One of the best things about living in the inner west of Sydney is the gorgeous little cafes, patisseries and village lifestyle. A suburb not far from my own that I adore is Balmain. Balmain is full of gorgeous fashion stores, cute and quirky cafes and is home to super chef Adrian Zumbo’s famous patisserie. I took a little walk searching for his Cafe Chocolat and stumbled across the patisserie instead. I think I will have to put Cafe Chocolat on my list of fabulous things to do this week.

The patisserie is tiny with only enough room for one line of people, which usually forms out the door. His cakes and desserts are like artwork. The sour dough bread is sublime and most impressively, he has a cake named Amanda! I’ll have to try that out some other time perhaps.

Of course I came away with some delightful macarons to make me feel just that little bit more French.

Check out Time Out Sydney’s review.

Inner West set on flickr

More macaron love on flickr.

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