Recipes
Nesselrode, Part 1: the Count, the Cook, and their Pudding | Food Perestroika
March 31, 1814. With the Austrian, Prussian, and Russian armies having defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Paris, the War of the Sixth Coalition is now over. Tsar Alexander I of Russia receives the key to the French capital from Talleyrand, and enters...
Nesselrode, Part 2: the Restaurateur, the Old-Timers, and their Pie | Food Perestroika
You might remember the story of the Nesselrode Pudding; or, how Paris' best pastry chef created a dessert for the Russian occupants while working for that turncoat Talleyrand. But perhaps your senile great-grandparents have fondly reminisced about a popular...