{"id":221,"date":"2004-03-25T19:27:34","date_gmt":"2004-03-25T19:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wordpress\/?p=221"},"modified":"2004-03-25T19:27:34","modified_gmt":"2004-03-25T19:27:34","slug":"the-great-croissant-taste-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"the great croissant taste-off"},"content":{"rendered":"

Team Croissant Portland geared up today for the Great Croissant Taste-Off, Portland edition. The team consisted of Dr. Croissant, aka Lillie, her mom Wendy, baby Paulina (who slept through the entire proceedings), and me. Here is Dr. Croissant in front of one of our contenders. Don’t you love her uniform? In case you can’t tell, she has a paper croissant taped to her hat. Also, I gave her a button that says, “I heart Warm Buns.”
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\nWe decided to sample croissants from five Portland bakeries: the Pearl Bakery<\/a>, Grand Central Bakery<\/a>, Ken’s Artisan Bakery<\/a>, Saint Honore Bakery<\/a>, and Florio Bakery. Dr. Croissant made us charts for evaluation. We rated the croissants on the following criteria: appearance, cost, butteriness, flakiness, and taste.
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\nFrom left to right, we have Florio, Ken’s, Saint Honore, Pearl, and Grand Central (the one that is as big as Lillie’s head). After all the tasting was complete, Dr. Croissant declared Grand Central to be the best, while Wendy and I, the assistants to the doctor, felt Ken’s croissants were superior. They were not the most beautiful, but they had the best flavor. My motto is now “don’t judge a croissant by its appearance.”
\nWe had to cut the session off after all the butter went to Dr. Croissant’s head and made her croissant crazy:
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Team Croissant Portland geared up today for the Great Croissant Taste-Off, Portland edition. The team consisted of Dr. Croissant, aka Lillie, her mom Wendy, baby Paulina (who slept through the entire proceedings), and me. Here is Dr. Croissant in front … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}