Hello everyone, you're listening to the Earful Tower podcast. My name's Oliver G. This is a show about Paris, France, French people, French pastries sometimes. Indeed, that is the case today. My guest is Molly Wilkinson, also known as Molly J. Wilk. In fact, that's her website, mollyjewilk.com. She is a French pastry chef. She is from Dallas,

Texas. She trained at the cordon bleu and has lived in France even longer than I have. I met her

in the 7th hour on this month. We met at the Blue Olive Cafe, got a takeaway, walk to the Chant-de-Mars,

and that is where we recorded this episode.

No need for a long intro. You know everything you need to know. We talk all about pastry. We talk all

about Paris. She reveals how to find a bad bakery, a good bakery. And she also talks about her new

book, which is called French pastry made simple, foolproof recipes for ecclare's, tarts, macarons and more.

As usual, if you're a Patreon member of this show, you're going to meet this guest in a lot more

depth when we do a live baking event for members before too long.

But look, let's get into it.

Sean de Mars, listen out for the birds inone the mouse listen out for the birds in the background

listen out for the dogs in the background it was a beautiful day here we go molly wilkinson on the

earful tower let's do it molly wilkinson how you doing i'm doing great are you all the merle very well

thank you welcome to today's studio.

And if we're silent for a second, oh, the birds stopped.

They did exactly what you asked.

But we're in a really different, there's the birds.

There they are.

Oh, so nice.

And they're beautiful, too.

We're sitting in the Chant-de-M Mass, which used to be home area for you.

Yeah, so I used to live on one of the boulevards near here. And I had this porthole window for my apartment.

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