This is Part Two of our interview with Altamare pastry chef Crystal Cullison. You can read part one here. What’s your favorite dessert to make? My favorite thing to make is my favorite thing to eat is ...

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 ...

Unless you’re a professional pastry chef, you probably make just a couple of pies a year — at most. As we head into peak pie-baking season, we talked to people who bake hundreds of pies each year, and ...

French pastry chefs are known around the world for their precision, creativity, and dedication to their craft. But few people ever see what a full day in their kitchen actually looks like. From early ...

SAN FRANCISCO Yoshi’s, welcomed the opportunity and additional work when her responsibilities expanded to include the dessert menu at the Japanese restaurant’s sister location in Oakland, Calif.

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 … ...

Pastry chef Adalberto Diaz returns to Food Network competition through The Ultimate Baking Championship season 1 while representing Utah and continuing his baking career.

Chef Adalberto Diaz Labrada poses for a portrait at the counter of his bakery, Fillings & Emulsions, in Salt Lake City on Feb. 19, 2025. Since competing on “Holiday Baking Championship” in 2015, he ...

If you haven’t heard of pastry chef Crystal Cullison, you might begin hearing more about her now. Her milk chocolate and salted caramel semifreddo and other desserts on the menu of the recently opened ...