Salad Days For Gilded Delicacies

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: December 27, 1992| Author: Elizabeth Snead | Copyright information

The '90s Gilt Trip: Have your gold and eat it, too.

Delicacies decorated with edible gold (sometimes silver) leaf are showing up everywhere: Lobster consomme sprinkled with gold leaf ($20), from chef Georges Perrier at Philadelphia's Le Bec Fin restaurant. Der Lachs' herb-based Original Danziger Goldwasser liqueur has flecks of gold leaf floating in the rose-tinted liquid. Gilded cookies. Recipes using the odorless and tasteless adornment are featured in this month's Living maga...

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