Daniel Nayeri

Daniel Nayeri is a writer and children's book editor in NYC. He loves pastry chefing and Street Fighter 2, hates the word "foodie," and was once an award-winning stuntman.

Intro to Pastry

Aug 10, 2012 5 min read Food & Drink

As we prepare to launch a new site, we wanted to celebrate a few articles from The Curator’s archives. This article was first published at The Curator in August 2008. So first

On <em>Sprezzatura</em> and Chupa Chups

Dec 9, 2011 5 min read Food & Drink Humanity Salvadore Dali UFC

This article was first published in December 2008. So the story goes that when Enric Bernat, Spaniard and former employee of an apple jam factory, piped himself down on a barstool in Barcelona,

Caramel

Oct 7, 2011 8 min read Food & Drink

This article originally appeared in The Curator September 12, 2008. So long ago I can’t remember when exactly, I heard that cliché, “begin at the beginning,” and it made a deep personal

Letter to a Young Poet

Jan 16, 2009 4 min read Literature poetry round 2

So vast was my fanboy admiration of Billy Collins when I was in college, so unencumbered by facts my ambition, and so shameless my neophytic insolence, that I wrote the Poet Laureate of

Chocolate Tasting

Nov 7, 2008 4 min read Food & Drink Michel Cluizel Shadow of the Colossus

So what are we talking here, like, four months till Valentine’s Day? Worst holiday of the year for pastry chefs. You’d think, “But aren’t all pastry chefs either sweet chicks