Eating on Jitneys

A couple of weeks ago I sat in during a Continuing Education Class at school taught by….dumdumdum…Christophe Michalak. Yes, the one and only. When I signed up for the class one of the chefs at my school told me that he is “totally hot in France right now.”

True. He also seemed to have an enormous prejudice against all-things-American. I mean, the guy knows what he’s doing. He also knew how to really style his hair. Here is a picture of his “pastry buffet”: it’s everything that the people in the class made during 3 days. I didn’t get to make anything. I washed dishes. But I did get to sit in on the class for free, get his recipes, and take notes…and pictures:

Here’s a good one. Chef Michalak told us to throw these marshmellow bears away because he was done with them. We took one look at them and knew we would not throw them away. We would, at the very least, take them to our class…and maybe take a little bite. Yes, here is Eva taking a little bite.

…buuuuut he needed them back the next day. And we accidentally left the bitten bear on the tray.  He already apparently hates Americans.  I’m guessing this didn’t help.

It was really cool to see his demos (even if he did have to use “shitty American pectin” and “no fresh raspberries??”).  I learned some things, and got a lot of cool pictures.