richard-in-cincy
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While the occasional typo is inevitable in these days of fast publishing with reduced staffs, some errors are just dumbfounding they are so wrong.
I've been perusing the newly released "A la Mode" dessert pairings cookbook (baked dessert paired with ice cream) by Weinstein & Scarbrough. Some of the ice creams in particular sound amazing.
However, this morning I saw this (and it's even the dessert featured on the cover):
"Linzer Cookie Tart"
"...we've kept them together in this jam-filled tart, modeled on Linzer cookies." (!)
Cooking History 101 Fail.
Did no one ever tell them that Linzer Cookies were modeled on the classic centuries-old Austrian Linzertorte, which was itself modeled on a similar torte depicted in Egyptian hieroglyphics? Some consider it the oldest known dessert in the world for this reason.
And that no, they did not just invent a centuries old Austrian specialty when they got the brilliant idea to turn the Linzer cookie back into its original tart form?
I just had to chuckle.
I've been perusing the newly released "A la Mode" dessert pairings cookbook (baked dessert paired with ice cream) by Weinstein & Scarbrough. Some of the ice creams in particular sound amazing.
However, this morning I saw this (and it's even the dessert featured on the cover):
"Linzer Cookie Tart"
"...we've kept them together in this jam-filled tart, modeled on Linzer cookies." (!)
Cooking History 101 Fail.
Did no one ever tell them that Linzer Cookies were modeled on the classic centuries-old Austrian Linzertorte, which was itself modeled on a similar torte depicted in Egyptian hieroglyphics? Some consider it the oldest known dessert in the world for this reason.
And that no, they did not just invent a centuries old Austrian specialty when they got the brilliant idea to turn the Linzer cookie back into its original tart form?
I just had to chuckle.