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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 .
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. [1] She was the Chef-in-Residence at Elawa Farm, in Lake Forest, Illinois.
Pastry Chef of the Year, James Beard Foundation (1990) Nancy Silverton (born June 20, 1954) is an American chef , baker , restaurateur, and author. The winner of the James Beard Foundation's Outstanding Chef Award in 2014, Silverton is recognized for her role in popularizing sourdough and artisan breads in the United States.
Pierre Hermé (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ɛʁme]; born 20 November 1961) is a French pastry chef and chocolatier. He began his career at the age of 14 as an apprentice to Gaston Lenôtre. Called "the Picasso of Pastry" by Vogue, Hermé was awarded the title of World's Best Pastry Chef in 2016 by The World's 50 Best Restaurants. [1]
Ron Ben-Israel (Hebrew: רון בן-ישראל; born 1957) is an Israeli-American pastry chef. He is the executive chef and owner of Ron Ben-Israel Cakes in New York City. He is known for his wedding and special occasion cakes as well as for his detail in sugar paste flowers. From 2011 to 2013, he hosted the cooking competition TV show Sweet Genius
Wayne Harley Brachman is an American pastry chef, cookbook author and television host. [1] [2] He is most known to audiences as one of the rotating co-hosts on the Food Network show Melting Pot, which aired in the early 2000s and featured two chefs per episode cooking foods unique to their cultural and ethnic backgrounds. [3]
Jennifer Yee is an American chef, specializing in pastry. Born and raised in San Francisco, she worked in several pastry kitchens in some of New York's finest restaurants, including Lafayette in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan as Patissière, and The Grill in midtown Manhattan's Seagram Building, as the opening Pastry Chef, before becoming the Executive Pastry Chef for Chef Linton Hopkins ...
In 1997, Maury moved to New York City to work with chef François Payard. During the same year, he won the Meilleur Ouvrier de France (MOF) title for pastry. In 2002 and 2004, he received the title of World Champion in pastry, once as a participant in 2002, and once as coach in 2004, thus officially holding a double title.