Pastry Chefs

David Burke: Doing Dessert and Doing Good

Regina Varolli | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Dessert, Celebrity Chefs, David Burke Townhouse, Pastry, Pastry Chefs, Chef David Burke, Cheesecake Lollipops, Table-to-Table, Chef, Celebrity Chef, David Burke, Food News

Sitting down to dessert with David Burke is quite an experience. With a boisterous personality and bellowing voice that fill the room, Burke is clearly a larger-than-life guy who knows how to have a good time.

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PHOTOS: New Desserts At The Source

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Pastry Chef, Duane Copeland, DC News, Wolfgang Puck, Video, Sweets, DC Restaurants, Desserts, Scott Drewno, Slidepollajax, Pastry Chefs, The Source, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Wolfgang Puck's Newseum restaurant, The Source, has a new face in the kitchen: Duane Copeland, who came on board last month as executive...

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The Country's Best Pastry Chefs & Their Signature Desserts

Tasting Table | Posted 04.09.2012

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Tasting Table is the free daily email for adventurous eaters everywhere. Hungry? Sign up here: TastingTable.com Each month, Tasting Table's Monthly E...

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Time to Make the Donuts

Jordana Zizmor | Posted 04.09.2012

Now that most of us have broken our resolutions it's time to check out Flex Donuts, which is located in the dining level of Grand Central Station. Besides running Flex Donuts, Zac Young is the pastry chef at both locations of Flex Mussels.

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Talking With Top Chef Just Desserts' Judge Johnny Iuzzini

Regina Varolli | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Daniel Boulud, Restaurant Daniel, Bravo TV, Gail Simmons, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Johnny Iuzzini, Celebrity Chefs, Pastry Chefs, Culinary Institute of America, Top Chef Just Desserts, Jean Georges Restaurant, Francois Payard, Hubert Keller, Food News

Johnny Iuzzini should have a lot of pride in his work. He's a driven, accomplished pastry chef who from an early age was smitten with sweets.

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'Top Chef Just Desserts' Amanda Rockman On TV Drama, Fave Chicago Desserts

| Lauren Drell | Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Reality TV, Amanda Rockman, Chicago Desserts, Bravo TV, Chicago, Chicago Food, Top Chef Just Desserts, Top Chef, Pastry Chefs, Chicago Pastry Chefs, Chicago News

Who: Amanda Rockman, a Katy, Texas, native whose mother’s lavish meals and most notably Sacher torte inspired her to attend The Culinary Institute o...

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Two Dozen Desserts Before Dinner

Regina Varolli | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Oscar Ortega, World Pastry Team Chamionship, Atelier Ortega, Jerome Landrieu, Desserts, Gordon Ramsay at the London NYC, StarChefs.Com International Pastry Competition, Paris Gourmet, Coup Du Monde De La Patisserie, Tish Boyle, Dessert Professional Magazine, Antonio Bachour, Barry Callebaut Chocolate Academy, Matthew Stevens, Sylvain Leroy, Ron Paprocki, Pastry Chefs, Slidepollajax, Francisco Migoya, Heather Carlucci-Rodriguez, Yoni Morales, Jean-Francois Suteau, Tariq Hanna, Food News

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'Sound Bites': Le Bernardin's Michael Laiskonis Crafts A Signature Dessert

Eater NY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sound Bites, NYC Restaurants, Le Bernardin, Desserts, Eater, Ennui, Michael Laiskonis, Citrus, Alex Stupak, Pastry Chefs, Food News

There's no better way to begin a new feature than in the hallowed kitchens of Le Bernardin. So, for the premier edition Sound Bites, Eater asked pastr...

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The Origins -- And Future -- Of Modernist Desserts

Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Desserts, Dessert Modernism, Modern Desserts, New Yorker, Pastry Chefs, Cooking, New Yorker Desserts, Adam Gopnik, Food News

Leafing through books at the neighborhood cookbook store, I slowly became aware that our dessert modernism sprang from somewhere else, and had a more ...

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An Off-Duty Chef Cooks at Home

Michael Laiskonis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thanksgiving, Chefs, Home Cooking, Pastry Chefs, New York City, Restaurants, Cooking, Food News

People are curious, I guess, not just in what we chefs eat during our downtime, but also how we fit those meals into the odd, long hours we work. It's true: I cook at home nearly everyday.

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How Sweet It Is: Kings of Pastry

Kristin McCracken | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Competition, Mof, Kings of Pastry, Chris Hegedus, Tribeca Film, Documentary, French, Lyon, Pastry Chefs, D.A. Pennebaker, Jacquy Pfeiffer, Pastry, Baking, Food, Food News

It may not sound like your typical thriller: a labor of love documentary about 16 pastry chefs who have risen to the top of their field, invited to compete against themselves.

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A Chicagoan Takes on Pastry Olympics

Flora Lazar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: French Pastry, Chocolate, Food TV Network, Top Chef, Bellagio, Payard, Vanille Patisserie, Peter Yuen, Chicago Pastry, Chicago Bakeries, World Pastry Competition, Pastry Olympics, Dimitri Fayard, Keli Fayard, Pastry Chefs, Chicago Pastry Chefs, Vanille Chicago, Dimitri Fayard Pastry Competition, Chicago News

By any standard, Dimitri Fayard has a grueling schedule. But add to it training for the year's most prestigious international pastry competition and you get a sense of this French-born Chicagoan's determination.

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