the golden girls : Cafe Fernando – Food Blog

An orange-scented chocolate and almond cake covered with a lacquer chocolate glaze. It is called L'Orange and I'm totally in love with it. Here is how it looked like right out of the oven. I couldn't decide for a while whether I should continue with the recipe or cut my losses and start over, but then the kitchen started smelling like an orange grove and I couldn't resist. ...

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OK. The secret is out. I'm adapting the script for the official Turkish adaptation of THE GOLDEN GIRLS. There. I've said it. And somehow, it still doesn't sound real. If you had a chance to read about my first day in San Francisco, I'm sure you'd understand. If you haven't, here's the jist of it: 1998. I landed at The San Francisco International Airport on a foggy Fall ...

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Picture this... San Francisco... Nineteen ninety eight... On a foggy Fall morning, a Turkish guy landed at The San Francisco International Airport. Sleepless from a 14-hour flight and stressed by the unpleasant wait of his student visa, which arrived 10 hours prior to his flight, his exhausted body and soul needed nothing but rest.

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