Hi Folks!
Some old and new websites.
Let’s start off with foodbeam.com , with Fanny from the Cote d ‘Azure in France.
She’s in the midst of a ten week internship with the incredible Pierre Herme, has beautiful pics of the desserts she is helping make there and also has a wonderful Flicker page of her Herme pictures as well as many of the other delicious items she makes.

luxuryculture.com is a website I’m all excited about because of their gourmet features which often delves into the pastry world. To navigate to the gourmet section, click on Luxury 01 after entering .
Scroll over to the right hand side where you’ll see “Theme”, click on it and a drop down window appears and you’ll click on “Gourmet”.

Biggish Thumbnails will appear and you’ll see the aforementioned “Dessert Delirium” featuring Christophe Michalak (we’ve got to talk to him!) who is not only the winner of the 2005 World Cup of Pastry ‘Coupe de Monde , He is also the Pastry Chef of Alain Ducasses’s flagship restaurant ADPA, in Paris’ Plaza Athenee Hotel.

Other’s featured are of course yes, Pierre Herme, Sadaharu Aoki, a realitive newcomer on the French ( and Japanese) pastry scene, who got his his chops in Paris and then delivered that and more back to his many satisfied customers in Paris and Japan.

Think Black Sesame pastry cream filled eclairs, ‘Bamboo’, his matcha tea and chocolate take on the venerable “Opera” cake, as well as many other classic French and French Japanese influenced delights.

Others featured are Oriol Balaguer , Carlos Mampel, and El Bulli and Cacoa Sampaka’s Albert Adria, all from Spain, all incredibly talented and innovative pastry chefs.

Lest we think no Americans are featured, worry not, Elizabeth Falkner, Chef and Owner of San Francisco’s own Citizen Cake and Citizen Cupcake is featured, along with the well known to most Sam Mason and Pichet Ong.

Other great articles in this webzine is a solo piece on Christophe Michalak.
Look out for this chef.

With Food Arts articles and the such, Michalak is set to explode even more on the scene.
His blog “Passions Gourmandes” is a real joy to read, his excitement for what he does is palpable and a book ( in French ) entitled “C’est du G�teau” ( It is Cake) is set for release on August 25th .

Cookbook author, pastry and savory, and all around cool person Dorie Greenspan has a great site that’s always a pleasure.

With everything that is “Dessertcentric restaurants” it’s great to not only announce that the first dessert restaurant in the world, direct from Barcelona, Spain, ‘Espai Sucre ( Sugar Space), the creation of pastry chefs Jordi Butron and Xano Saguer and their interconnected pastry school, has totally revamped their website but also that Chef Jordi Butron and I will soon begin a conversation for pastrypros.com !

Well, this should keep you busy for awhile, have fun surfing!!!

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