Posts by Gale Gand

I am not coming this year but Rick Tramonto, my culinary partner, will be there. We actually switch off every year so our son can go who lives half the time with Rick and half the time with me...so you will see me in 2010. Looking...

I still make it myself with a co-packer. I prepare the cinnamon-ginger-vanilla infusion and the bottler handles the large batch part of the process and gets it into the bottles and sticks the labels on. We make about 500 cases at a time...

First, kiss your family goodbye. Birthdays, family gatherings, etc. you will not be around for those any more...you will be working. Your job as a pastry chef often is to help others celebrate special events and most of the time that...

Thank you.

There are not enough hours in the day which is why I am behind on answering all of the question. :) My husband stays home with the kids while I work and travel. He is very understanding and I call him my trophy husband. My family and...

Nielsen-Massey has a fantastic line of extracts that I love. Aside from using their vanilla extract and vanilla paste they offer peppermint, lemon, orange, almond, coffee and chocolate extracts.

The inspiration actually came from my husband who grew up on different snack cakes than I did. I also get inspiration from my childhood memories or my husbands childhood memories. A lot of my inspiration comes from antiques cookbooks,...

For something that is so second nature to me I often don't realize what a struggle that can be for some people. I know that there are some rolling guides you can buy with circles printed on them as a guide (to help you color inside the...

It's hard to use a lot of whole wheat flour in baking...it's just too heavy. But I usually can replace 1/4 of the white flour with whole wheat and still be pretty true to the recipe.

When I'm teaching kids to cook I start rthem cutting watermelon. It's safe and they love to eat it. It's soft enough to not snag a knife on. Fruit kebobs in genreal are good too...and kids seem to love potato pancakes.