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    Pray for Paris
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    Pray for Paris

    A one-inch warm gougère filled with truffled brie, painted with a Basquiat-style crown

    For the 2020 album cover painted by the masters — Gunn's love letter to fine art

    Why this bite? 'Pray for Paris' fused rap with fine art and Parisian taste. A gougère crowned like a Basquiat — the gallery and the block, together.

    The Story

    Pray for Paris was the moment a Buffalo rapper hung his work in the same conversation as the canvases he collects. This bite answers in kind: a warm Burgundy gougère filled with truffled brie, each one hand-painted with a tiny Basquiat-style crown in beet and squid ink. It is hip-hop walking into the gallery and refusing to be a guest — French technique, street-art soul.

    Prep: 35 minYield: 12 pieces

    Ingredients

    • Choux pastry
    • Gruyère
    • Triple-cream brie
    • Black truffle paste
    • Beet powder
    • Squid ink
    • Nutmeg

    Preparation

    1. 1.Pipe and bake one-inch gougères until puffed and golden.
    2. 2.Whip brie with truffle paste; fill each gougère.
    3. 3.Mix beet powder and squid ink into edible paints.
    4. 4.Hand-paint a tiny crown on every gougère.

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