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• n  a bakery specializing in French pastry

• Apprenticed in a Paris patisserie, young Pierre found the work hard and long, the food scanty.
• And at every bar, beachfront, boulangerie (patisserie) and boucherie (butcher), we are met with a froideur (coldness) and hauteur (arrogance) of such sangfroid (calmness), it .
• Payard is a third-generation pastry chef whose New York City bistro and patisserie is a place of pilgrimage for chocolate lovers.

News & Articles

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• Best weekend bets
  EAT No Dessert Left Behind Little Goat 820 W. Randolph St., second floor 312-888-3455 Pastry chefs from more than 30 restaurants including Vanille Patisserie, RM Champagne Salon, Floriole, Fat Rice, Avec and Bombon team up with 20 food bloggers and home cooks for a baked goods mega-sale to benefit Share Our Strength. Take your treats home or out to the patio with a $10 blueberry mimosa-partial ...
  June 7, 2013 - RedEye

Quotes

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• Nicolas Sarkozy in Reuters
  He succeeded, with his talent and his creativity, his rigour and his high standards, in raising patisserie to the rank of an art,Sarkozy said in a statement.
• Frederic Michalak in Independent Online
  Michalak warned that the competition could be as much about physical endurance as artistic flair - although "patisserie is first and foremost about the pleasure of taste." "This competition is a real fight. You have to prepare like a boxer,...