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.

Sugar

Oct 10, 2008 4 min read Food & Drink pastry sugar

So you might be thinking to yourself, “didn’t he do caramel last time?” and you’d be right, gentle reader, quite right. But just because caramel is principally sugar and butter doesn’

Caramel

Sep 12, 2008 8 min read Food & Drink

So long ago I can’t remember when exactly, I heard that cliché, “begin at the beginning,” and it made a deep personal impact on my writing life. No longer would I jump

Intro to Pastry

Aug 29, 2008 5 min read Food & Drink pastry

So first of all, my contributions to The Curator will only be about dessert. And dessert is completely unnecessary. And they’re all going to start with the word “so.” No particular reason.