Wed, Oct 7
Duff Goldman Presents: The Tao of Duff | Fully Seated
Watching somebody who is genuinely great at a craft talk about it without condescension is rarer than it should be, and it scratches something that cooking television mostly stopped providing years ago. Goldman built a reputation on architecturally insane cakes, but the more interesting thing about him has always been that he trained as a real pastry chef, welds his own armatures, and treats the whole enterprise as sculpture that happens to be edible. An evening like this is closer to a lecture from a working artist than to a demo — stories about failures, about the physics of holding a six-foot cake upright, about running a kitchen. Seated, in a converted bowling alley turned music room, which is a funnier and better setting for it than a theater would be. Music at 8:00 PM in Ventura on East Thompson Boulevard. The people who come to these tend to be the ones who actually bake, and they ask the good questions.
Watching somebody who is genuinely great at a craft talk about it without condescension is rarer than it should be, and it scratches something that cooking television mostly stopped providing years ago. Goldman built a reputation on architecturally insane cakes, but the more interesting thing about him has always been that he trained as a real pastry chef, welds his own armatures, and treats the whole enterprise as sculpture that happens to be edible. An evening like this is closer to a lecture from a working artist than to a demo — stories about failures, about the physics of holding a six-foot cake upright, about running a kitchen. Seated, in a converted bowling alley turned music room, which is a funnier and better setting for it than a theater would be. Music at 8:00 PM in Ventura on East Thompson Boulevard. The people who come to these tend to be the ones who actually bake, and they ask the good questions.
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Watching somebody who is genuinely great at a craft talk about it without condescension is rarer than it should be, and it scratches something that cooking television mostly stopped providing years ago. Goldman built a reputation on architecturally insane cakes, but the more interesting thing about him has always been that he trained as a real pastry chef, welds his own armatures, and treats the whole enterprise as sculpture that happens to be edible. An evening like this is closer to a lecture from a working artist than to a demo — stories about failures, about the physics of holding a six-foot cake upright, about running a kitchen. Seated, in a converted bowling alley turned music room, which is a funnier and better setting for it than a theater would be. Music at 8:00 PM in Ventura on East Thompson Boulevard. The people who come to these tend to be the ones who actually bake, and they ask the good questions.
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