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List Of Pastry Chefs
This is a list of notable pastry chefs. A pastry chef is a station chef in a professional kitchen, skilled in the making of pastries, desserts, breads and other baked goods. They are employed in large hotels, bistros, restaurants, bakeries, and some cafés. Pastry chefs * Dominique Ansel * Antonio Bachour * Florian Bellanger * Ron Ben-Israel * Willem Berkhoff * Wayne Harley Brachman * Sébastien Canonne * Philippe Conticini * Cheryl Day * Elizabeth Falkner * Gale Gand * Duff Goldman * Carine Goren * Shayne Greenman * Cédric Grolet * Tariq Hanna * Maida Heatter * Pierre Hermé * Johnny Iuzzini * Cheryl Koh * Beulah Levy Ledner * Alain LeNôtre * Gaston Lenôtre * Annie Lim * Nicholas Lodge * Norman Love * Emily Luchetti * Jean-Philippe Maury * Roland Mesnier * Ho Chi Minh * Melissa Murphy * Candace Nelson * Ghaya Oliveira * Anna Olson * Pichet Ong * François Payard * Jacquy Pfeiffer * Claire Ptak * Marc Rivière * Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pastry Chef
A pastry chef or pâtissier (; the French female version of the word is pâtissière ), is a station chef in a professional kitchen, skilled in the making of pastries, desserts, breads and other baked goods. They are employed in large hotels, bistros, restaurants, bakeries, and some cafés. Duties and functions The pastry chef is a member of the classic ''brigade de cuisine'' in a professional kitchen and is the station chef of the pastry department. Day-to-day operations can also require the pastry chef to research recipe concepts and develop and test new recipes. Usually, the pastry chef does all the necessary preparation of the various desserts in advance, before dinner seating begins. The actual plating of the desserts is often done by another station chef, usually the ''garde manger'', at the time of order. The pastry chef is often in charge of the dessert menu, which, besides traditional desserts, could include dessert wines, specialty dessert beverages, and gourmet chee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florian Bellanger
Florian Bellanger (born 20 April 1968) is a French pastry chef, formerly the executive pastry chef at the famous Parisian pastry and candy shop, Fauchon. He is a permanent judge on the Food Network's competition series ''Cupcake Wars'', appearing in over nine seasons and 135 episodes to date. Early career Bellanger grew up in Paris and spent much of his free afternoons baking for his family. However, a childhood chocolate allergy prevented him from enjoying sweets and desserts for six years, which temporarily discouraged his desire to bake. At age 15, Bellanger applied to one of Paris's prestigious pastry schools, the ("Paris school of table skills"), but was rejected for being a year too young. By 1986, he graduated from the school with a specialization in pastry cooking and a specialty in chocolate and ice cream; he now says chocolate is his favorite ingredient and admires its versatility, claiming it is "fun" and something "taken for granted." Before starting his own comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tariq Hanna
Tariq Hanna was Executive Pastry Chef and partner of the Sucré dessert restaurant in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was born and raised in Nigeria, and after attending boarding school in England, Hanna moved to the United States to attend Lawrence Technological University in Detroit, Michigan. Hanna enrolled himself in culinary school at Oakland Community College. His first job in the restaurant industry was working the sandwich board at a deli in Southfield, Michigan named Sol's Deli. While searching for jobs in hot food, Hanna dabbled in pastries on the side. In 1993, Hanna opened his own family-operated pastry and catering shop, The Northville Gourmet, at the age of 24. After six years of self-employment, Hanna was offered a position as the first casino pastry chef in Detroit. In December 1999, MotorCity Casino opened in Detroit. It was here that Hanna immersed himself in pastry, from taking and teaching classes to performing in competitions on a local and national level. Durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cédric Grolet
Cédric Grolet (born 28 August 1985, Firminy, France) is a French pastry chef. He is the executive pastry chef at Le Meurice, in Paris, part of the Dorchester Collection. Grolet's pastries focus on fruits and the reinterpretation of traditional French desserts. He is known for creating desserts that have a likeness to the fruits from which they're made. In order to achieve this effect, Grolet molds a thin shell of white chocolate and airbrushes it to replicate the appearance and texture of fruits such as lemons, apples, and figs. Grolet is also the author of ''Fruits'', a cookbook that explores his fruit-based desserts. In March 2018, he opened his first pastry shop within Le Meurice in Paris. Grolet opened a second shopCedric Grolet Opéra in Paris (2019), a third shop in LondonCedric Grolet at The Berkeley(2022), and recently, a fourth shop in Singapore. In 2022, Cédric appeared oPastryClass with his first-ever online class, where he teaches Fruits, Nuts, Flowers. Back ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shayne Greenman
Shayne Greenman (born 11 January 1969 in Benalla, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian artisan baker, sugar craftsman and culinary artist. In early 2012, Greenman became the gold medallist in the Australian Artisan Baking Cup and was the World Championship Artisan baker at the SIGEP Baking Cup in Rimini, Italy. In late 2012 he won the Australian Culinary Challenge Decorated Cake Award, Greenman placed Top 5 in the International Baking Association Cup in Munich, Germany. Greenman was also invited to visit the Ecole Gastonomique Bellouet Conseil, Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Institute and L’Atelier Des Sens in Paris, France. Greenman competed at the 2014 Cake Decorating Championships held in Sydney Olympic Park. at the Cake, Bake and Sweets Show and won two first prizes in Masters Division, one for a sugarcraft piece depicting the birth of a dragonfly and another Novelty cake depicting a 1920s fortune teller a life size bust sculpted out of cake and was a finalist in a third c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carine Goren
Carine Goren ( he, קרין גורן; born 1974) is an Israeli pastry chef, bestselling cookbook author, and television personality. She began her culinary career at age 26 as a recipe writer and editor at the Israeli food magazine ''Al Hashulchan'' (Around the Table), and in 2006 published her first dessert cookbook, ''Sweet Secrets''. As of 2016 she has published five cookbooks, including one for children, and is the host of her own television baking show, also called ''Sweet Secrets''. In 2016, she became a judge on the new Israeli reality television show ''Bake-Off Israel''. She has an avid fan base and was the most googled person in Israel in 2015. Early life Growing up in Haifa, she was one of two daughters of a driving instructor and a stay-at-home mother. Karin graduated from the Hebrew Reali School in 1992. She earned a B.A. in communication at the University of Haifa, and later on earned B.Sc in Software Engineering at the ORT Braude College of Engineering. She married he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duff Goldman
Jeffrey Adam "Duff" Goldman is a pastry chef, television personality, and cookbook author. He is the executive chef of the Baltimore-based Charm City Cakes shop, which was featured in the Food Network reality television show ''Ace of Cakes'', and his second, Los Angeles-based, shop Charm City Cakes West, which is featured in Food Network's ''Duff Till Dawn'' and "Cake Masters" series.Julekha Dash.Audacity brings chef sweet success" ''Baltimore Business Journal.'' Accessed January 20, 2007. Retrieved on January 20, 2007. His work has also been featured on the ''Food Network Challenge'', '' Iron Chef America'', ''Oprah'', ''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno'', ''Man v. Food'', '' Buddy vs. Duff'', ''Duff Takes the Cake'', and '' Duff's Happy Fun Bake Time''. Early life Goldman was born in Detroit, Michigan, to a Jewish family. He moved shortly thereafter to Missouri. Goldman's nickname Duff came about when he was a baby. His toddler brother, Willie Goldman, was unable to pronounce Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gale Gand
Gale Gand is a Chicago-based pastry chef, cookbook author, television personality, and winner of the 2001 James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Pastry Chef. Gand was the host of the Food Network show ''Sweet Dreams''. She was the Chef-in-Residence at Elawa Farm, in Lake Forest, Illinois. Gand is a partner and was the founding Executive Pastry Chef at Tru, a contemporary fine-dining restaurant affiliated with Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises. Gand and her partners at Tru won the 2007 James Beard Foundation Award for Service. She has blogged for the Huffington Post, was a contestant on Iron Chef America in the 2006–2007 season, and was a judge on Bravo's Top Chef in 2008 for the episode Wedding Wars. Gand was also featured on the Great Chefs television program. Biography A native of Deerfield, Illinois, Gand began her restaurant career in 1976 working as a line cook and waitress in Cleveland, Ohio, and then as a pastry chef in Rochester, New York. She later did pastry i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Falkner
Elizabeth Falkner (born February 12, 1966) is an American chef, pastry chef, author, restaurateur, and consulting chef. She has appeared as a competitor and sometimes a judge on reality television cooking competitions, and she is a Top Chef television series alum. She is currently residing and working in Los Angeles, California, Early life and education Elizabeth Falker was born on February 12, 1966, in San Francisco, California, and raised in Southern California. Her father was an art professor. Falkner graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1989 with a BFA degree. Career Her first restaurant job was as a dishwasher at French bistro Cafe Claude in San Francisco. She moved into French fine dining at Masa's with Chef Julian Serrano. In 1993, Falkner became the pastry chef at Elka in the Miyako Hotel, and in 1994 Falkner was the pastry chef under chef Traci Des Jardins at Drew Nieporent's restaurant Rubicon. Citizen Cake and Orson In 1997, Falkner opened Citiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheryl Day
Cheryl Day (born 1961) is a baker and author, who is owner of Back in the Day Bakery and co-founder of Southern Restaurants for Racial Justice. She is the author of two best-selling cookbooks, written with her husband Griff Day. In 2015 she was a semi-finalist James Beard Awards in the category of Outstanding Baker. Biography Day was born in 1961. Her great-great-grandmother, Hannah Queen Grubbs, was an enslaved pastry chef noted for her baking, especially her pies and her frostings. This connection Day said, makes her work feel "more important somehow". Her grandmother taught her to bake, during the summers that Day spent staying with her in Alabama. She founded Back in the Day Bakery in 2002, and as of 2020 co-ran the business with her husband, Griff. Day and her husband have co-written two best-selling cookbooks. The first book was entitled ''The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook,'' which was published in 2012 and was a New York Times best-seller. The second book ''Bake in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Conticini
Philippe Conticini, a French chef and pastry chef, was born 16 August 1963 in Choisy-le-Roi, Val-de-Marne. Having worked in France, in the U.S. and in Japan, he conceived four innovations including verrines in 1994, which present dishes traditionally served on plates in a vertical, transparent container. After receiving several awards and working in Michelin-starred restaurants including''La Table d'Anvers'' and ''Petrossian''), he cofounded and became head pastry chef of the ''Pâtisserie des Rêves'', a patisserie with outlets in France, Japan and the UK. In 2012 Conticini appeared in the show '' Le Meilleur Pâtissier'' on French TV Channel M6. Biography Youth and apprenticeship Conticini was born on 16 August 1963 in Choisy-le-Roi. He spent his childhood in his parents’ kitchens at the Restaurant du Rocher in Vitry (Val-de-Marne), then at the Michelin-starred Restaurant du Parc in Villemomble (Seine-Saint-Denis). His apprenticeship began in 1980 at Alain Dutournier's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sébastien Canonne
Sébastien Canonne, M.O.F. (born 1968) is a French pastry chef and co-founder of the French Pastry School in Chicago, the Butter Book online platform, and EQUII. In 2004, he earned the title of Meilleur Ouvrier de France. In 2012, he was named a knight by the French government in the Order of Academic Palms, and in 2015, in the National Order of the Legion of Honour.Janet Rausa Fuller"Chicago Pastry Chef Sebastien Canonne Wins France's Top Award," DNAinfo.com, DNAinfo Chicago, September 15, 2015. Early life and education Canonne was born and raised in Normandy, France.Erik Unger"Sebastien Canonne,"''Crain's Chicago Business'', November 3, 2007. His training began at the Culinary School of Rouen in Normandy when he was 15.William Rice"Prince Of Pastry,"''Chicago Tribune'', June 11, 1995. He had a culinary apprenticeship at the School of Hospitality and Hotel Management in Rouen, Normandy, followed by a pastry apprenticeship under chef Gaston Lenôtre. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
