Take two of these and call me in the morning
Fadi Kalkosh, Assistant pastry chef, Park Hyatt Dubai
And for some people, dessert is like an antidepressant for life’s sorrows - making it an essential part of each day.
Fadi Kalkosh, assistant pastry chef at the Park Hyatt Dubai, knows this well. Though he cannot eat as many sweets as he’d like to - he has high blood sugar levels - he sometimes wakes up at 3 or so in the morning to have a bit of chocolate, spurred by a dream.
“Though people today try to cut down on sugar to improve their health, life without dessert is impossible to imagine,” he said during an interview last week at the Grand Hyatt Seoul in Hannam-dong, central Seoul. Kalkosh is in town to promote a selection of pastries from the Middle East at the hotel’s bakery, The Deli.
From left: Middle Eastern pastries available at The Deli, Grand Hyatt Seoul. Provided by the hotel
“Arab sweets are relatively well-received in Europe and the United States, but they haven’t been widely available in Korea or other parts of Asia,” Kalkosh said. “I wanted to offer something special to Koreans, to give them a new taste.”
The “Syrian Sweets” promotion at The Deli at the Grand Hyatt Seoul runs until Sunday. The price is 5,000 won ($4.24) per 100 grams. For information, call (02) 799-8167.
By Lee Eun-joo [angie@joongang.co.kr]
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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