European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 3, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes modern living Washington bakery Loac no piece of cake United press International connoisseurs around the capital say the watergate burglars proved themselves rank amateurs by heading for democratic National Headquarters instead of the complexes Pas try each the popular Walkin outlet also handles orders ranging from single cakes to a hotels desperate request for 100 cakes and individual it was no conceded Marc the european trained chef who runs the watergate pastry that was just one order on a Day that might have had 50 other Well Supply anyone with just about Given enough time to make though the shop counts politicians and performers from nearby Kennedy Center among its most passionate it also handles half its business on a wholesale most orders Are for specially More than 100 every French pastries Are with the Kitchen keeping eclairs and tortes on hand at any Given cookies Are also a with the ovens turning out 200 dozen a Randolph keeps a staff of 18 Busy filling orders from up photo Marc Randolph showing some of his wares in the watergate pastry customers and turning his ideas into Sweet toothed reality As a compensation of sorts for the grueling the chefs wife Deborah is one of the kitchens making All the chocolate and handling anything involving Marzi the most important thing about pastry is making sure you love to do because this will be reflected in your Randolph we love our work and will do anything to move one notch the numbers Are often the pastry shop goes through up to pounds of chocolate in a in just a it goes through pounds of along with 25 30pound boxes of Cream cheese for its popular cheese the current rage among Washington elite is Randolph elegant White chocolate mousse with alternate layers of the mousse and sponge topped with White chocolate shavings and a single White Choco late the oversized brownies called chocolate dreams Are also much in As is the Walnut cake with Hazel nut the mandarin Orange cheesecake floating on a raft of liquor soaked sponge and the coffe Erich chocolate espresso in addition to winning top honors among the capitals food the pastry shop draws Praise regularly from battalions of europeans practising politics Between bites of Randolph Sacher in their these visitors no doubt suspect they Are tasting the Handiwork of a fellow and they Are at least born to an american Mother and a Swiss Randolph grew up just outside Geneva and Learned the Art of baking from his Swiss he began creating pies and tarts when he was i have been eating and sleeping pastry Ever said my technique is european but the formulas for these cakes Are All my the Young Man was also fortunate enough to have an Uncle who was a food chemist As Well As a giving him a thorough grounding in the scientific Side of Bak after his apprenticeship in pastry Loving Randolph realized the Road to Success was much More quickly travelled in the United he trained at manhattans prestigious be Cirque and at the Ritz Carl ton in Chicago before taking Over the watergate pastry 85hour weeks Are nothing unusual for ran since there tends to be a line across the counter at most hours of the he does manage to devote one Day in seven to devel Oping new including some for lighter desserts achieved through increasing the number of egg Whites and decreasing the butter and heavy i want to offer desserts that make people feel free to take a second Randolph but i also want to keep making those Rich its important to have something for Erma Bombeck we were eating in a Spanish restaurant the other night when my Friend and i excused ourselves and went to the since both of us Are she arrived at the first pressed her nose two inches from and with her hands traced the outline of what she thought to be a hooped it turned out to be the Cape of a bullfighter and we found ourselves in the mens the two of us hid in a Booth until it was prudent to come we do not consider ourselves authorities on mens but since few women have visited this Bas Tion of male we made some observances on the men go to the restroom i dont know Why they do but i have yet to see a Man stand up in a announce where he is going and ask if any other Man at the table would like to go with with women its a social Outing something you my husband Calls it the Ark women go into the restroom two by two and come out the same men without every Man who came in to the restroom whistled and didst Stop until he on the other never they there is everything to talk Why there Are no Why there is no Why the hand Blower Doest Why there is a toll charge for using the i have established More meaningful relation ships from holding the door of a pay Booth open than you can in a lot of us still men return from the facilities and seem embarrassed to discuss where Treyve they never hear any gos never see any never find out if the fish on the menu is Frozen or that the blonde waitress is married to the drummer who is to a restroom is an where men instinctively Check out the location before they sit women Buzz around asking the the the maitre d and end up wandering around the going through doors that Lead to the parking and giggling in a dark corridor about whether or not a uni Corn is male or i dont know How to explain any of maybe women just dont get out a c uni Angeles times Syndicate
