FLORENTINES!
Yes, I have other work to do but instead I’ve been trying, for almost a day now, to remember the name of a pastry that I first had at Louis Patisserie in Hampstead in, um, 1980. Finally, after too much thinking and googling, it just came to me: Florentine – a round, thin chewy chocolate-coated biscuit covered on one side with nuts and dried fruit. Yum. So if you’re at Louis, the famous old Hungarian tea house, try one. Other London pastry shops will no doubt have them. Or you can settle, happily I hope, for a Cadbury chocolate bar with fruit and nuts (one of my favorites.)
If you haven’t noticed by now, I tend to eat “bad” food in London – something my kids immediately picked up on during our first trip there together when they were in grade school. (Is this heaven? No it’s London.) They couldn’t believe I was letting them drink orange soda and eat chips (i.e. fries), crisps (i.e. potato chips, preferably salt and vinegar) and chocolate (Cadbury bars and Maltsers, far better than our malted milk balls, although I prefer U.S M&Ms to the British Smarties) – rather than their usual forced diet of fruit and vegetables. As I pointed out to them, it all had to do with the price of the food. And, of course, we were “on vacation.”
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