02.03.08
The Soufflé Bug
For the last few days, my beautiful and sexy wife and I have been watching Sabrina, an old Audrey Hepburn movie from the 1950’s. In one scene, Hepburn’s character makes a failed soufflé at a cooking school in Paris. The next day I woke up, filled with the urge to cook a soufflé myself. In particular, chocolate. In particular, to impress said beautiful and sexy wife, whoc like most beautiful and sexy wives, loves chocolate.
Unfortunately, it took me several days to gather the requisite ingredients and equipment (finding a soufflé dish is trickier than you might imagine, especially if you’re not interested in paying a bajillion dollars for one at a specialty cooking shop), but this morning I baked a lovely chocolate soufflé which we ate for brunch. It was light, fluffy, and sinfully delicious. I was so impressed with myself (and the product of my endeavors), that now I want to bake another one, perhaps cheese. Thus, the title of this post. It has bitten me.
Incidentally, I am a devoted Audrey Hepburn fan, and currently own twelve of her movies on DVD. I intend to own them all. We also have a large picture of her in our kitchen, which I got from a guy who was moving out of his apartment here in the building. The picture belonged to his girlfriend, and he personally hated it, and when I commented on it, he proposed to give it to me and tell her that it was destroyed accidentally in the move. I went home happy.
Also incidentally, the movie amuses me because of the obvious early 1950’s portrayal of capitalism and business as virtuous and beneficial, which is interesting to me because we have been discussing the Red Scare and its effect on Hollywood in one of my seminar classes at law school.
By the way, here’s the recipe I used. It was easy; you should try it.
executivepagan said,
February 3, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Great movie - and one of the *rare* cases where I actually liked the remake better than the original… I found Harrison Ford much more believable than Bogey in that role (IIRC the original was part of the period where the studio was trying to turn him into a romantic lead rather than letting him do what he did best).
Although it’s kinda hard to argue too much with a movie that has Bogart, Hepburn *and* William Holden.
Seth R. said,
February 3, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Amazing actress. My wife and I always liked Charade.
beingmade said,
February 3, 2008 at 11:08 pm
I love Audrey Hepburn, and I’ve never tried a Souffle.
It took me a bit to get caught up, but I wanted to say hi and I’m still reading!
Kullervo said,
February 4, 2008 at 6:53 am
Seth: Charade’s a lot of fun; we have that one too.
beingmade: Glad to see you still around!
executivepagan said,
February 4, 2008 at 8:03 am
Charade is one of my favorites.
kay said,
February 11, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Pssst, Kullervo, click the link on my name.
Bryant said,
February 16, 2008 at 2:28 pm
I like Katherine Hepburn more I must admit - she’s more tart and vinegar-y.
Kullervo said,
February 16, 2008 at 4:41 pm
I’m not sure they’re even related, but they sure are kind of opposites, aren’t they?