Tempering at right temperatures prevents formation of crystals that appear as blotches on the chocolate. Without tempering, your chocolate will be mottled, crumbly and grainy.
Graffiti has had a mixed press over recent years. On the plus side, creatives like Banksy have made graffiti an aesthetic pleasure, applying stencils to create technically challenging artworks loaded with a subtle meaning attached. This kind of graffiti was certain to become trendy with both the public and the artworld : visually pleasing […]
Here at the wedding wish lantern offices, we have always adhered to the hypothesis that wedding lanterns must be white. Not only are they fine and sylphlike with a swan-like elegance in their white dress, they are also more homogenized and- more often than not- merge nicely with the off-whites of the bridal colours. When […]
1Walking in the Snow
(New Years Day2006)
The winter wind whistles, harmoniously
with happy snowdrifts, miles long
and my shoes, like car tires
grip the ground, they chop through
away the whiteness.
The day is calm. No birds fly
across the sky. Hercules
is asleep. It must be this snow
we need to balance our equilibrium,
this […]