Pie Digest Part 4

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It’s called ‘The Nordic Lake’ and it’s an adaptation

pie:

of a traditional cucumber soup that’s been clarified

of a kind of alcohol.’ How would you intersect that

and charged with effervescence. There’s ice

palate with something that wouldn’t be a turn off ?

components of black licorice and caraway.

solarik:

I also have ‘The Night Blossom’, an Asian

approach, as far as the composition, is to respect

influenced kind of cocktail, this beautiful frozen

the ingredients. It would be a matter of directing

noodle - which was six feet long - which we bent

the flavors of what’s involved with the particular

and created this abstract shape and dropped it into

spirit that they are a fan of, or that I’m working

a bath of liquid nitrogen, and it would freeze the

with, and just slightly adding slight nuances of

noodle in this particular shape. We’d garnish the

accents - through aromas or particular flavor

noodle with fluid gels of mint and chartreuse and

profiles that accentuate particular notes found in

patchouli.

that spirit.

Somebody comes to you and says, ‘I am a purist

That’s an awesome question. My whole

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