The Pastry Chef's Apprentice

The masters featured in The Pastry Chef's Apprentice teach classic pastry skills, such as caramel, pate a choux, tart crusts, and more, to the amateur food enthusiast. Through extensive, diverse profiles of experienced experts plus fully illustrated tutorials and delicious recipes, the reader gets insider access to real-life chefs, bakers, culinary instructors, and more.

With these new skills--or just the chance to revisit their old standards--everyone from casual cooks to devoted epicures will learn dozens of new ways to take their kitchen skills to the next level.

Featured chefs include:
Laurent Branlard, USA: restaurateur and Executive Pastry Chef at the Swan and Dolphin Resorts at Disney World
Frederic Deshayes, France: Chief Pastry & Bakery Instructor at At-Sunrice GlobalChef Academy
Thaddeus Dubois, USA: former White House Executive Pastry Chef and Culinary Mentor
Robert Ellinger, UK/USA: owner of Baked to Perfection, founder of the Guild of Baking and Pastry Arts, and international pastry competition judge
Lauren V. Haas, USA: Assistant Pastry Chef at Albert Uster Imports and Instructor at Johnson & Wales University
Thomas Haas, Germany/USA
En-Ming Hsu, USA: Chef Instructor at the French Pastry School in Chicago
William Leaman, USA: World Champion Baker and Owner of Bakery Nouveau in Seattle
Iginio Massari, Italy: Author, Restaurateur, and Founder of the Academy of Italian Master Pastry Chefs
Kanjiro Mochizuki, Japan: Executive Pastry Chef at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo
Ewald Notter, Switzerland/USA: Founder and Director of Education of Notter School of Pastry Arts
Kim Park, South Korea: owner of the Green House Bakery and captain of South Korea's national pastry team
Jordi Puigvert, Spain: founder of Sweet'n Go, consultant, and professor at the School of the Hotel de Girona in Spain
Anil Rohira, India/Switzerland: Corporate Pastry Chef for Felchlin Switzerland and coach and judge for national and international competitions
Sébastien Rouxel, France/USA: Executive Pastry Chef for the Thomas Keller Restaurant Group
Kirsten Tibballs, Australia: Founder of Savour Chocolate and Patisserie School in Melbourne
Franz Ziegler, Switzerland: Author and Consultant