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CakeThis ad apparently premiered in the UK the day before my birthday, and the minute I saw it, I fell in love with it.
The love falls roughly into three parts: (a) The basic conceit of the ad. (b) The nuts and bolts of the production (i.e., trying to figure out how much of the construction really happened and how much only seemed to). [Update: it all happened. See below.] (c) Some of the little details (the licorice windshield wipers and fan belt, the gelatin brakelights, the royal-icing detailing, the guy pouring golden syrup into a gingerbread crankcase...).
Altogether a yummy piece of work, and the ad agency should be proud of itself / themselves.
The basic ingredients: 10kg white chocolate chunks | 20kg raisins | 3kg orange peel strips
25kg dried apricot | 12.5kg raspberry jam | 5kg cocoa powder 100kg wheat flour | 180 fresh eggs | 100kg caster sugar | 90kg brown sugar paste 50kg icing sugar | 40kg black sugar paste | 20kg glacier cherries 50kg white sugar paste | 30kg brown almonds | 42kg chocolate fudge EDIT: There is "making of..." info here at one of the Skoda UK websites. Also, see these news stories (or check them out if you have trouble getting the above URL to load:
For St. Patrick's Day: a new real Irish recipe every dayI should have mentioned this earlier, but it's been busy... We've been doing an Irish recipe festival over at EuropeanCuisines.com: a new traditional Irish recipe every day until March 17th. If you're looking for something to make for the upcoming holiday, stop by and see if there's something that suits you. (Check the top of the left-hand column: the day-by-day list is there.) Also, the rant about corned beef and cabbage not being the Irish national dish at all now has its own home over there, so I can stop posting about it here every year. Now back to work...
Aww, thanks, folks!A nice mention of The Empty Chair this morning at the Albany TimesUnion books blog. Thanks, Michael: thanks, Eleanor! And regards from an expat New Yorker. Happy New Year, all!Just a quick note. Today's a work day for me, but I wanted to take a moment to wish everybody a great 2007 and all possible good things in your lives.  (Image of fireworks over the River Shannon in Limerick, Ireland courtesy of CitizenKane at Flickr) Just a note to first-time visitorsThis isn't my main weblog: that lives at the following URL -- http://www.dianeduane.com/outofambit/ However, entries that appear there will be mirrored here starting in January of 2007. Thanks, and welcome! |
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