Posts by Gale Gand

I am seeing less pastry chef positions in restaurant kitchen now and smaller pastry staffs. Buying premade or frozen desserts is currently more common, or line cooks rather than trained pastry people are making the desserts. Having said...

Hmmmmm, that doesn't make sense. You obviously are a decent baker...but it makes me think of one time when I was judging the Whirlpool Unique Cake Contest (I think the show of it still airs on Food Network occasionally) and a...

I think they already have. A lot of innovative ideas born in restaurant kitchens make their way eventually to the home kitchen and grocery store shelf. Look what happened to the liquid center cake, first created by Joel Robuchon. Now it...

I get staff from myriad places...some are culinary school graduates, mostly from Kendal College, CIA, Johnson and Wales, etc. or The French Pastry School located in Chicago. But we also have people in our kitchen who are coming to...

We do get some requests for gluten free meals, which includes no glucose in any of the desserts or petit fours, and have gotten those requests for the last 10 years. I know bakeries are offering a few items and people are really...

That's a good question. I looked over lots of recipes that I found on the internet and none of them have the step I learned in pastry school which is to dust them heavily with powdered sugar right after you pipe them, but before you bake...

I use whatever is on sale. In the restaurants we use Plugra and Grasslands. In my cookbooks I don't use either of those since I like to use what's in the grocery store to mirror what home cooks use. I am mostly Land O'Lakes gal.

My mom and grandma Elsie. I am mostly self taught or as Julia Child told me to say "I learned in the field". I didn't know I wanted to do pastry until a chef I was working for (Gereg Broman in Rochester New York) forced me...

Laughs... We don't have the complete list yet but certainly Italy will get one show. There will also be shows that focus on Hungary, Russia, and Japan to name a few. Two of the shows will be unique in that one will focus on an African...

Make sure you get some really comfortable shoes. If your feet hurt you wont be successful. Taste what you make as much as possible. If you have the opportunity, go live in Paris for 6 months or a year. Just walk up to a pastry shop and...