Earful Tower listeners, Oliver G here and we are celebrating today 1,000 reviews on this podcast.

That might not sound like a lot of reviews to you, but for me it took, I think, six years to get that far.

It took three and a half million downloads of the show before a thousand reviews came in.

Hopefully that puts into perspective why it's a big deal to me.

And I was thinking, how do you celebrate something to do with a thousand?

And my brother Eddie, who edits this podcast, came up with the idea of milfouille.

Mille fie is a French dessert.

You might know it as a Napoleon or a custard slice or a vanilla slice, but in France they're

called milfouille.

And that literally translates to thousand sheets or layers or leafs.

The idea being the pastry is folded so many times you end up with a thousand layers it's mixed with cream it's uh there's berries on top

it's a beautiful little treat that uh french people really love we decided the earful tower team

that we should go and make some milfei so we took a class a cooking cooking class with cooking with class. And you're going to hear

in this episode, Chef Christian, with me, with my wife, Lena, with the photographer, Augusta,

and with blog writer and tour guide Charlotte. We all went and made these beautiful treats.

If you're struggling to imagine what they look like, there are

lovely photos. They're going to be on the earfultower.com. Check them out. As for the episode you're

about to hear, this isn't literally how to make milfay. It's more of my effort to bring you in the

class with us so you can feel what it's like. I talk to the chef about chocolate, where to get good

stuff in Paris.

He's a really renowned pastry chef, so there's lots of good advice in there as well.

But the idea really is to have a bit of fun for this bonus episode.

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