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Suas began baking at age 14 in Brittany, France. [1] At age 21 he became head pastry chef at Barrier, a Michelin Guide three-star restaurant in Tours, France. [1] Several years later Suas and his wife immigrated to the United States and toured the country in a Volkswagen van, ending up in San Francisco in 1987, which was in the midst of a "bread revolution". [2]
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The sponge and dough method is a two-step bread making process: in the first step a sponge is made and allowed to ferment for a period of time, and in the second step the sponge is added to the final dough's ingredients, [1] creating the total formula. [2] In this usage, synonyms for sponge are yeast starter or yeast pre-ferment.
In French, the word pâtisserie also denotes a pastry as well as pastry-making. While the making and selling of pastries may often be only one part of the activity of a bakery , [ a ] in some countries pâtisserie or its equivalents are legally controlled titles which may only be used by bakeries that employ a licensed "master pastry chef ...
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. [2] 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 ...
The school was founded in 1995 by master pastry chefs Jacquy Pfeiffer and Sébastien Canonne, M.O.F. [1] [3] Pfeiffer and Canonne met in Chicago in 1992, where they discussed the lack of a serious pastry school in the US. [1] They formed the school in order to teach traditional French pastry making, based on the European master-apprentice model ...
Bakery in Brussels (Belgium). A bakery is an establishment that produces and sells flour-based baked goods made in an oven such as bread, cookies, cakes, doughnuts, bagels, pastries, and pies. [1]
Bread covered with linen proofing cloth in the background. In cooking, proofing (also called proving) is a step in the preparation of yeast bread and other baked goods in which the dough is allowed to rest and rise a final time before baking. During this rest period, yeast ferments the dough and produces gases, thereby leavening the dough.