Earlier this month I attended the New York Food and Wine “Sweet” event, sponsored by Godiva. One of the star attractions was Top Chef Just Desserts judge and Executive Pastry Chef of the three-star Jean Georges restaurant in New York. His booth was mobbed all night…
Last night on Top Chef Anthony Bourdain finally loved something Fabio made and said so on the show. And fabio doesn’t even really like making desserts. He didn’t win, but he came close. See Part I here: Fabio discusses Top Chef: All Stars and a…
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….
The season finale starts off provocatively with Morgan calling Zac a “Fairy”. Later, he calls Danielle an idiot for having pastry chef Elizabeth Falkner shell pistachios. If he wins, he will have definitely bucked the karma trend. Go here for this episode’s official theme song.
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…
Quickfire: The chefs had to create 4 unique chocolates to represent 4 milestones in their lives. Francois Payard is the guest judge. Morgan worked for him in Brazil. And of course Johnny worked for him in New York. It’s a small pastry chef world. After…
This week’s guest judge was Shinmin Li – she’s got some beautiful cakes and was very well spoken on the show. What I like about her most was that she really gives it to the contestants, telling them exactly what she liked and didn’t like. She…
