Comments on: Angkor Thom

By: Katrina

Katrina — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:03:35 +0000

Gorgeous, MM, just as I envisioned! I am now feeling even worse that our Viet/Cam trip last year didn’t push through, but more determined than ever to make sure we do it this year. :-)

By: Maria Clara

Maria Clara — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:15:12 +0000

No recent post up which I find odd. Hoping everything is well.

By: navyGOLF

navyGOLF — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:39:35 +0000

Very nice pix MM! Thanks, as always for sharing them. We’re planning to visit this place come April but with the comment of heat and humidity during this period, November sounds better.

By: Vickie

Vickie — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:53:23 +0000

Come back to NYC!

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/dining/04note.html?_r=1&8dpc

By: Artisan Chocolatier

Artisan Chocolatier — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:53:05 +0000

Valrhona custom blends exclusively for La Maison du Chocolat (and only for them) per formulation of Robert Linxe.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:14:30 +0000

Angela, those look divine. As for the valrhona linxe uses, I wonder if it is a different quality level from the commercially sold valrhona…

By: Angela

Angela — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:13:39 +0000

Hi MM,

This is off topic. . .I’ve read of how much you love La Maison du Chocolat, so look what I found on Gourmet’s website:

https://www.gourmet.com/recipes/2000s/2001/02/linxetruffles

I just might try making this for Valentine’s. I also read your blog re chocolate taste test (Valrhona, Scharffenberger, and Godiva). Hey, if Valrhona is good enough for Robert Linxe, it’s good enough for me ;)

By: Marketman

Marketman — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:22:39 +0000

Crissy, I meant it, though not in a totally couch clinical context, in that the Kings who built these temples, ostensibly as a religious offering, where perhaps just feeling inferior or less superior than previous or neighboring kings (often from different ethnic backgrounds, and who regained and lost control of these area in several waves of conquest), so they OVERCOMPENSATED for this feeling of inferiority by commissioning ever larger, taller, more elaborate temples as a testament of their now resulting superior position... It was a lightly made comment, but I still like the spirit of it. It was made in the same vein as light comments regarding individuals or countries that MUST build the tallest towers or structures or buildings and psychoanalysts slyly suggesting they build such tall and phallic structures to make up for their own shortcomings... Here's wikipedia's really simplistic take on an "inferiority complex"...

By: Crissy

Crissy — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:25:18 +0000

I don’t get the INFERIORITY complex comment!?!!? When you build on such a scale, it stems from an inferiority complex? Does it follow that the pyramids of Giza, were driven by the same impulse? Please explain.

By: kittyxtreme

kittyxtreme — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:07:09 +0000

Sorry, my bad! CAMBODIA, man!