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Corn Dinner, Dessert: Sweet Corn Ice Cream « Food and Things
Thursday, October 15th, 2009Claudia Fleming is one of America’s great pastry chefs. These days, you can find the former Gramercy Tavern pastry chef and her luscious desserts at the North Fork Table and Inn in Southold on Long Island’s North Fork. …
Kaemmerle, Philippe
Thursday, July 9th, 2009Philippe KaemmerleArt Institute of New YorkNew York City NYFrench Culinary InstituteNew York Cityhttp://www.artinstitutes.edu Alsace, located on the French and German border, is known for dishes that draw elements from both cuisines. Philippe Kaemmerle’s career began at that intersection of culinary cultures, and he went on to create pastries for some of New York’s best restaurants [...]
Leborgne, Dominique
Thursday, July 9th, 2009Dominique LeborgneLa Palais du ChocolatWashington, D.C. In Washington, D.C., there are many monuments but few palaces. That’s why, when customers entered Dominique Leborgne’s white marble Palais du Chocolat and saw rows of milk chocolate pyramids, cocoa-dusted bittersweet truffles, and beautiful bonbons filled with Cointreau and Armagnac, they wondered: Is this really Washington? Or Paris? Or [...]
Love, Norman
Thursday, July 9th, 2009Norman LoveNorman Love ConfectionsFt. Myers FLhttp://www.normanloveconfections.com There is a cartoon depicting two mathematicians standing before a board filled with incredibly complex equations. One points to a spot in the equation and says to the other, “and then a miracle happens.” Such a miracle must have happened in Norman Love’s training and experience that vaulted him [...]
Ruskell. Richard
Thursday, July 9th, 2009Richard RuskellMontage Laguna Beach, CAtaped at Mary Elaine's, The Phoenician, Phoenix AZhttp://www.montagelagunabeach.com Named on of the "top ten pastry chefs in America" by Chocolatier magazine, Richard Ruskell was taped for Great Chefs at the legendary Mary Elaine's in Phoenix, where the chef was James Boyce. Now he's the pastry chef at the Montage Laguna Beach [...]
Liccioni, Roland
Thursday, July 9th, 2009Roland LiccioniLe FrancaisChicagowww.lefrancaisrestaurant.com Highly imaginative and artistic, Roland Liccioni’s culinary creations represent “contemporary French cuisine” in its highest form. Leaving Le Francais when its original owner Jean Banchet returned in 1999, Liccioni and his wife Mary Beth set about opening their own new restaurant, Les Nomades, in nearby Chicago. The Liccionis also became involved with [...]
Torres, Jacques
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009Jacques Torres Le Cirque 2000/Jacques Torres Chocolate New York NY http://www.mrchocolate.com At age 21, Jacques Torres became the youngest chef ever to earn the prestigious title of Meilleur Ouvrier de France Patisserie, an honor bestowed only on the top pastry chefs in France. Three years before receiving this honor, Le Figaro, the nationally syndicated French [...]
Gerhard, Keegan
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009Keegan Gerhard taped at The Ritz-Carlton Naples, Florida, and The Windsor Court Hotel, New Orleans LA http://www.labellecuisine.com Keegan Gerhard, Pastry Chef at the five-star Windsor Court Hotel in New Orleans, was named one of the nation´s top pastry chefs in 2002 by both Chocolatier and Pastry Art & Design magazines. And anyone who saw his [...]
O’Malley, Gale E.
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009Gale E. O’Malley Hilton Short Hills New Jersey taped at Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu http://www.hilton.com Gale O´Malley likes seeing young, aspiring pastry chefs make it on their own. He was the youngest and the first American-born pastry chef to receive a Grand Prize for excellence from the French government, back in 1981. And he continues [...]
