December 2010
6 posts
Pistachio and Rose madeleines
English, instead of metric measurements
1 large egg
1/5 cup caster sugar
pinch of salt
1/5 cup grams unsalted pistachios
2 tablespoons of pure icing sugar
3.5 tbsp unsalted butter, plus 1 tablespoon for greasing pan
1/3 cup plain flour, preferably Italian 00
1 tablespoon rosewater
24-bun mini-madeleine tin (I used a 12 tin regular madeleine tin and only just scraped by enough for 12...
“If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.”
“In an era when Web 2.0 companies are nudging us to publish more and more, the...”
Sometimes I wonder if Mark Zuckerberg is engineering the greatest hack of our generation. Not hack in its technical or literal sense.
But in the sense that Facebook is hacking our narcissistic, voyeuristic and irrationally human tendencies to create the most comprehensive database of people ever to exist.
