9 Nasty Truths About Your Favorite Foods
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I fell in love with eclairs when I was just a teenager, working in a deli. We'd get a shipment of pastries from a local pastry shop once a week, and I quickly learned that these delicacies of pate a choux, pastry cream and dark chocolate were best fresh. If no one else was around, I'd sometimes pay half-price for one of them and eat it for breakfast (technically, against the rules, but in the spirit of understanding my product, no?). Days later I felt badly selling them, the pastry no longer flaky and light, the cream no longer vanilla-scented but more like deli-fridge-scented.
When I saw these treats from Renaissance Culinaire, I knew they were fresh. You can just taste chocolate ganache, can't you? It would be a crime to let these go until tomorrow. Next time you make cream puffs, Amber, I'll be happy to help you save them from languishing uneaten...
