A perfect crème anglaise. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.
The television personality and cookbook author
Ted Allen stirred up a shit storm this week by calling me out on my hatred of the round wooden spoon, which he apparently has the hots for. He happened to mention our exchange at a
City Harvest event to
Eric Ripert, executive chef of
Le Bernardin, one of the finest restaurants in the country,
with whom I’ve worked closely, who added a little more caca to the pot by tweeting "Crème anglaise? Since the days of Escoffier, stir with a wood spoon, Ruhlman."
He then phoned me to further
faire caca into my cell phone until he conceded that it was the wood, not a round wood spoon, then was evasive, said a client ...
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