Shawn Gawle's "Vol au Vent" dessert
Corton’s Shawn Gawle has been on quite a run lately. In September he received the 2011 Rising Star Award from Starchefs.com. In February he was named among Food and Wine’s Best New Pastry Chefs and his “Birch & Chocolate” dessert was called out by Grub Street as one of America’s “most crazy-awesome new desserts“. Hopefully, all this media attention prepared him for the kind of fame that results from a feature in DessertBuzz… (more…)