Almond Coffee Crisps

In 1994, I had the honor of working with ten other chefs to prepare a dinner for charity at the famed Charlie Trotter’s restaurant in Chicago. My husband, Elliott, even joined in as maître d’. Celebrated chef Jean-Louis Palladin was still alive and at least as colorfully temperamental as Gordon Ramsay is today. We spent the entire day in the state-of-the-art kitchen prepping, and in the