Waves of applause greeted a cinched blue silk jacket with a shawl collar scattered with silver embroidery, worn over a citrine skirt in mille-feuille layers of stiff organdie. |
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The mille-feuille was indeed outstanding, the puff pastry perfectly flaky, the vanilla cream light and aerial, the nougatine topping thin and crunchy. |
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A complicated foie gras sandwiched between mille-feuille with roasted apples followed. |
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A shrimp coulis enhances the smoked salmon mille-feuille coupled with creamy cheese and avocado. |
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Elsewhere, finger-spin has become a poutingly sexed-up business, a mille-feuille of intermingled variations, from the zinging, waddling, slingshot conjury of Saeed Ajmal to the princely, short‑form poker player Sunil Narine. |
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And at the end of it all, do keep some appetite for their mille-feuille, made of three layers of puff pastry alternating with two layers of pastry cream. |
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Artist-Makers this year included photographer Benjamin Fredrickson, ceramicist Zack Davis and pastry chef Olivier Dessyn of Mille-Feuille Bakery. |
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Millefoglie di Casa Perbellini Perbellini's extraordinary version of Mille-Feuille has been labelled 'legendary' and 'the dish that made him famous. |
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