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Raindrop Cake Is America's Next Big Food Craze

Step aside, cronut. There’s a new dessert coming to town that’ll be making a splash this weekend. Meet the raindrop cake, a dessert inspired by Japan’s Mizu Shingen Mochi. Described by creator Darren Wong, it’s a “light, delicate and refreshing raindrop made for your mouth.” And like rain, the water and agar-based creation is calorie-free and lacks flavor until eaten with accompanying molasses and roasted soybean flour. Raindrop cake will only be available at Brooklyn’s Smorgasburg starting this weekend for now, but you can learn more about the dessert here.

Manila Social Club’s 24-Karat $100 Gold Donut 

If you find it hard to pass by a Krispy Kreme when the “Hot Now” sign is illuminated, then you’ll more than likely be super intrigued by this 24-karat gold doughnut, offered at New York’s Manila Social Club. The family-owned restaurant is run by head chef and founder Björn DelaCruz, who posted a picture of the Golden Cristal Ube Donut roughly a week ago. Since then, New Yorkers have been lining up to try the $100 dessert. The doughnut is filled with ube mousse and decorated with champagne frosting. To top it off, it is then leafed in 24-karat gold.

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Inside the "Cooking With Scorsese" Zine

Hato Press take us through a unique culinary world referenced in cinema classics via their lighthearted and obscure publication, “Cooking with Scorsese.” Covering a range of films from Goodfellas to The Breakfast Club, this is a fully-formed experience, the paper zine backed up by an interactive website. London print and publishing house Hato will launch the project with a silent screening of “Bennie and Joon” and a supper club serving some of the edible creations depicted in the film including Peanut Butter and Cereal Milkshakes and Tennis Racket Mash Gnocci, fontina and rocket.

Grab the movie cookbook at the Hato Press webshop and book yourself in for the South London launch here.

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The Grand Budapest Hotel: "How To Make a Courtesan au Chocolat"

The staff at Mendl's, Zubrowka's premiere patisserie, show you how to make their legendary "courtesan au chocolat", as enjoyed my M. Gustave and all those at The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Well Dunn With Jourdan Dunn  VIDEO

“Everybody, including myself, thought it was a bit random,” said Jourdan Dunn of her new cooking show, Well Dunn With Jourdan Dunn, which debuted on Jay-Z’s Life + Times YouTube channel last week. “But that’s what I liked about the project to begin with. Nobody saw it coming.”

Julia Child Remixed "Keep On Cooking" PBS Digital Studios VIDEO

In celebration of her 100th birthday, Julia Child Remixed by John D. Boswell, aka melodysheep, for PBS Digital Studios.