New York Restaurant Begins Serving Twinkies

NEW YORK CITY– Per Se, located in Columbus Circle, opened in February of 2004. Since then, it has earned four stars from the New York Times and it was recognized as one of the top forty restaurants in the United States by GAYOT.com. Currently it is one of only six restaurants in the United States to have three Michelin stars. Each meal costs upwards of $275. Its owner, Thomas Keller, proudly posed with head sommelier, James Hayes, in front of the kitchen doors for a picture, which could not be included due to technical difficulties.

“This is probably one of the classiest places in New York,” Keller boasted.

So it came as a surprise when, last week, he added an odd familiarity to his desert tray: a Twinkie.

“I was as surprised as anyone else when the idea hit me,” he remarked. “But a Twinkie makes an excellent palate-cleanser.”

Keller’s Twinkies are no ordinary Twinkies. He worked with Danish pastry techniques to craft a masterpiece. He starts with finest whipping cream and adds an egg-white meringue to make it slightly more firm.

“The first time we made them, we weren't sure how much vanilla to add,” he recalls. “Our first batch actually had a brownish tint in the cream.”

The cream is wrapped in a thick sponge cake and served with an edible wrapper made of sugar.

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