It has been a wonderful 5 years of sharing recipes, tips, techniques and bits of food history with all of you. However, due to an illness in my family I can no longer maintain the Flour & Fig website. The site will remain accessible for some time, though no new recipes will be added. Thank […]
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Chef Marjorie Perotti-Brewster has enjoyed a lifelong love affair with cooking and baking. She started teaching at her own kitchen store and cooking school in 1978, and remains an active chef and cooking teacher today. This website showcases her latest project, recreating the large-batch fine pastry recipes from her father’s baker’s journal, handwritten in the […]
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Welcome, foodies and baking enthusiasts! You’ve arrived at the site of a labor of love, growing over several years from the discovery of a baker’s journal from the 1930’s, filled with over 600 pastry recipes and notes. Heirloom Pastry Methods The baker was my father Louie (Luigi) Perotti, who immigrated as a child from Turbigo, […]
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