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When Diana Yen and I obtained matched as much as create an merchandise for the snack break at Cherry Bombe Jubilee, Diana needed one thing playful, one thing visible. Because the founding father of A LA CARTE, a studio that makes a speciality of meals images, styling, and recipe improvement, Yen is all the time specializing in how one can make particular person elements sing. She lives in Ojai, California (which she’s dubbed “the Upstate of L.A.”) and visits the farmers market weekly, letting native and seasonal produce information her cooking. In her work, elements come first, preserving in thoughts the only approach to execute. Normally a recipe is completed as soon as after which by no means used once more.
I, alternatively, am the founding father of Anita’s Yogurt primarily based in Brooklyn, NY. I am a former vegan chef, and I created my signature coconut yogurt in my house kitchen to make use of in dessert recipes. 9 years later, the model has offered over one million cups of yogurt from coast-to-coast together with 150 places of Complete Meals. My recipes have been featured on Food52, Munchies, Cherry Bombe and Bon Appétit.
So collectively, Diana needed to make one thing utilizing Anita’s Yogurt that evoked the journal’s brand. So she thought, “How do I make two cherries?” She sliced strawberries horizontally and that led to drawing a stem between them. An enormous a part of what made it standard was drawing that stem on the skin of the cups, and sticking the strawberries on the within. It was colourful and the flavors evoked springtime — a floral trace from rosewater and the tart strawberries. The smoothie had three layers, purple strawberry puree on the underside, white chia and yogurt within the center, and a traditional pink strawberry smoothie on high. It is a technicolor dream of a smoothie, a pousse-café meets a parfait meets a smoothie, as scrumptious because it was visually beautiful.
Most spectacular to me was how she showcased my yogurt so superbly, and the engineering that was concerned. Every layer needed to be barely much less thick than the earlier one to ensure that them to remain on high of one another with out mushing collectively. With our workforce of 5, we rigorously spooned every layer into a whole bunch of glasses (every one hand drawn with the stem by Diana) the morning of Jubilee. Diana hand lower a whole bunch of paper straws in order that they have been the right size for the mini tumblers. As soon as the snack break began, attendees poured into the room and the smoothies have been gone inside minutes. However our efforts paid off. Diana’s strawberry rose smoothing made with my yogurt turned probably the most Instagrammed snack of that 12 months’s occasion.
Recipe: Diana Yen’s Strawberry Rose Smoothie, from Anita Shepherd
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