Add to that the fact that most culinary schools silo savory and pastry, and the result is that many chefs have zero experience making desserts. For some chefs, though, the magic is in the crossover.

Dominique Lombardo, executive pastry chef at New York's Rezdôra Osteria Emiliana calls the extensive book "always reliable," adding that it's a "good go to book when you need a base recipe to ...

The big picture: Women dominate the pastry world.A recent Zippia survey found that 64% of pastry chefs in the U.S. are women, and 34% men. Which is part of why they may have received less ...

For some chefs, the magic is in the crossover. 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 ...

Daniela De Lorenzo is a Oslo-based reporter covering sustainability. MADRID, SPAIN - MAY 13: The pastry chef makes San Isidro doughnuts with a pastry bag in the Horno de ... [+] San Onofre ...

As someone who likes home-cooked pasta and experimenting with her favourite ingredients, eggs, butter, and flour, mainly because she is a pastry chef, Santana Pillay said her goal was to learn as ...

greasy pastry (hence the tales of pastry chefs working on marble worktops in freezing rooms). You can pop the butter in the freezer for 15 minutes before you begin, and add ice cubes to your water ...

Celebrated chef Tom Kerridge hosts the search for Britain's best team of pastry chefs. The teams must create elaborate patisserie and desserts for judges Benoit Blin, Claire Clark and Cherish Finden.

The first expert is Chef Muhammed Ince, Executive Pastry Chef at Fontainebleau Miami Beach. One key step in making chocolate mousse is patiently melting the chocolate — and, according to Ince ...