We’re big fans of Karen DeMasco’s pastry here at DessertBuzz. Her desserts are always interesting and always delicious. From fancied-up mini-rhubarb pies to lemon tarts–we dig them all.
Last week at the New York Chocolate Show DessertBuzz caught up with Top Chef: Just Desserts contestant and pasty chef Eric Wolitzsky for a follow-up interview. He was in the main kitchen theater about to make a chocolate gingerbread bundt cake for a standing-room-only crowd….
Top Chef: Just Desserts’ Zac Young sat down with DessertBuzz at the New York Chocolate Show after just missing the final three last week. DessertBuzz: So you have to be one of the contenders for fan favorite and the $10,000 that comes with it. Zac…
Compared to Johnny Iuzzini, Hubert Keller and Gail Simmons, fourth judge Danielle Kyrillos might seem a little under the radar. In fact she’s no dessert newbie–she’s been covering the Aspen Food and Wine Festival and writing about sweets for Daily Candy for years. After reading…
Jacques Torres has a lot on his plate right now and I don’t mean just chocolate nibs. A few weeks ago he hosted a party in honor of the opening of Kings of Pastry, the new D.A. Pennabaker documentary about the M.O.F. Pastry Award (go…
After suggesting in a Top Chef: Just Desserts post that Bravo should couple Zac Young and Fabio Viviani for a new show – I received an email from someone claiming to be Viviani. At first I wasn’t sure it was him, but the subsequent emails…
Throughout most of episode 1 of Top Chef: Just Desserts it was difficult to know what to make of contestant Zac Young. He clearly had one of the strongest and funniest personalities of the new show but what about that giant bow tie and all…
