This Mother’s Day, moms are everywhere and will wake up and be moved: their children and spouses show them breakfast in bed. This is a gesture, a microcosm of “thoughts are important” (when I was a kid, the author remembered to propose some insufficient bread). But this year, we asked food stylist Paris Starn to adhere to her traditions, essentially creating Mother’s Day mood boards for the rest of us in the process.
“I really had a lot of fun conceptualizing the spread of Mother’s Day,” Starn said of her breakfast on the bed tray. “I combined all my mother’s favorites: lilac, latte and pancakes,” she said. The result: pizza with lemon, sugared lilac and butter. (Starn said she was inspired by the cafe nominated by the Hudson James Beard Award.)
At Union Square Farmers’ Market, she picked up the flowers – making sure they are pesticide-free and pesticide-free. She put a vase. She turned into a decorative edible accent: “I then dipped the egg whites in lilac, painted a light lilac on the towel, sprinkled the sugar on it, and sprinkled in the refrigerator overnight,” she said.
Starn also made batsmen the night before, which included lemon peel and fusion super sugar. “The next morning, everything I was going to do was quickly finished the batter and fried the pancakes,” she said. “When the pancakes were cooked, I set up the tray: put a lilac sprig in the egg cup and make the latte. I spread napkins and silverware from my mother’s wedding cutlery.”
Find Starn’s recipe to recreate this mother’s day or inspire you in the years to come.
Video: courtesy of Starn Paris
Paris Stahn
On my first coffee Lanzhou lamb tour in Hudson, NY, I got their crepes (must give it a try if you are in the area). They are great and I can’t stop thinking. Their center hasty and tender edges are as short and tender as any pancake I used to be.
