Nicolas Guercio, the executive pastry chef at Hôtel Lutetia. Julie Limont Guercio, who at one point also wanted to be a motorcycle cop, took a circuitous route to find his dream job. Despite his ...

There’s a cliché in the restaurant industry that line cooks are afraid of pastry. They’ll complain it’s too precise, requires too much measurement. Add to that the fact that most culinary schools silo ...

This article originally published at A former Ritz-Carlton chef is now making 5-star desserts at a Calif. casino.

You might think that professional pastry chefs bake everything from scratch — that they’ve come up with a recipe for every dough, frosting, and filling. But even the pros appreciate a good shortcut … ...

Three contestants, all from California, baked showstoppers for the series’ finale, where one pastry chef walked away with $50 ...

Follow Executive Pastry Chef Caroline Schiff of Gage & Tollner through an entire day preparing the breads and dessert menu at an iconic 143 year-old New York restaurant. From feeding her beloved ...

A Michelin star pastry chef in SLO County has been competing in a national competition for the crème de la crème, and it ends ...

When Kristin Colazas Rodriguez, the former pastry chef at Dominique Crenn’s restaurant Petit Crenn in San Francisco, moved home to Long Beach, California, in 2018, it seemed like there wasn’t a single ...

© 2025 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. All Rights Reserved. At the Vinings mainstay Canoe, executive pastry chef Jessica McKinney incorporates seasonal flavors ...

Another Mother’s Day without my mom, and I’m filled with memories. Truth be told, my mother was not famous for her baking.