Princeton has a small pastry shop called "The Little Chef". Many would agree that this is probably one of the best pastry shop for croissant, scones and many other delicacies which I don't even know names of.
Somehow, I thought of learning croissant from the Chef of "The Little Chef". It took me almost a year to convience him that I am serious about it. Finally (Fighter hamesha jitta hai), I was asked to report at 6am on a "freezing" Saturday morning at the shop as croissant and scones are baked fresh in the morning.
It was indeed an interesting experience. For the first time, I was on the other side of the counter in a Pastry shop baking/learning stuff and watching different ppl who came to the shop (Apprantely most of them were regular customer on Saturday mornings). Croissant needs a lot of planning (almost 10 hrs for different steps) and most of it needs to be completed the previous day/night if one wants to eat them in the breakfast!!! So far my frequency for baking them has been annually and I still don't have a good control over the shape but they taste great!!! Thanks Little Chef!!!!
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