Lune croissants via Everyday Coffee
33 Johnston Street
Collingwood
http://lunecroissanterie.com
Something important is happening, people. Are you tuned in? Can you feel it? I’ve heard folks talking about the ‘new wave’; a shift in consciousness. Some have referred to it as a global awakening: a divine coalescing of peoples, a merging of cultures, an evisceration of national borders. Whatever you want to call it, people, it’s here. It’s real. It’s now.
Let me explain. A couple of weeks ago Fitzroy Foodie Fridays introduced you briefly to the ‘dossant’ – an inspired cross-cultural hybrid between that buttery French delicacy, the croissant, and the equally delicious fried bread with a hole, the donut, that (according to Wikipedia) originated in the US. The dossant (or cronut) is a revolutionary combination – a bringer of peace, a bastion of love! When eaten, a true phenomenon occurs: the complete dissolution of stress, argument and bad blood between gobbling parties. Oh, and composure. Forget war! You are eating a dossant.*
Today, the Fitzroy Foodie Friday crew discovered yet another world-shattering pastry combination: le croffin. Yes, you guessed it – that would be the croissant crossed with a muffin. Slightly heavier than your average croissant (there’s the muffin influence right there) this was light, filled with lemon curd and utterly delicious. I’d go so far as to say genius. And in actual fact, as I understand, the genius of a former aeronautical engineer and Formula 1 race car developer who flew to Paris to undertake a pastry apprenticeship and who now runs Lune Croissanterie in Elwood.
“So”, I hear you ask, “which is better? Le dossant or le croffin? Is this not the most difficult decision of your life?!” Yes, it may be a dang hard gig. However, after weighing up the virtues of each in a particularly painstaking and scientific manner**, I’ve concluded that…wait…wait…the croffin is even better than the dossant.
Unfortunately for me, completely inconsistent with this blog entry’s poorly thought-through line of argument, my verdict caused a bit of an office brawl.
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* Please note that holes may appear in this argument if you take my dossant. They will, however, be berry coulis-filled holes.
** Not peer-reviewed.
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