Has anyone actually tasted these? Are they good in addition to looking impressive in their duplication of real fruit?
Has anyone else noticed how the Los Angeles Times has just deteriorated into Listicles rather than anything truly illuminating about food, including how it tastes.
The Time has definitely been doing more listicles than proper articles, but that’s not a listicle. It’s a column Jenn Harris has been doing for a long time in which she usually covers multiple places. And she did talk a little about how some of the pastries taste, though not as much as usual.
Partner has gotten patisserie from Aurora maybe twice, and we’ve enjoyed them.
The taste is pretty good, not AMAZING (IMHO), but, given how beautiful they are, they could easily get away w/ something that doesn’t taste that great at all.
My vague memory is that the taste of the fruit-shaped ones are clearly related to the actual fruit (but we don’t always get fruit shaped ones).
I mentioned our first experience here: May 2024 Rundown - #42 by paranoidgarliclover
I wouldn’t hesitate to try one, if you’re interested.
I eventually did figure out that while she was not going to say a damn thing in the article itself about these pastries tasted, whether they were good, bad or indifferent, I could click on the video where she might actually review the items.
I couldn’t make it all the way through the video. Found her insufferable and blathering. I guess written food criticism is dead, at least at the Los Angeles Times. It’s depressing, although perhaps not for the Tik Tok generation.