{"product_id":"9781610580274","title":"The Pastry Chef's Apprentice: An Insider's Guide to Creating and Baking Sweet Confections and Pastries, Taught by the Masters","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor many people, pastries, cakes, chocolates, and sweets come ready to eat right from the grocery store. If they're lucky, a local bakery or chocolate shop satisfies the community's sweet tooth. Few people think they have the skill or the time to tackle something as seemingly complicated and time-consuming as homemade pastry. In \u003ci\u003eThe Pastry Chef's Apprentice\u003c\/i\u003e, author Mitch Stamm simplifies a culinary school's core pastry curriculum and teaches the reader just how quickly you can go from sifting and stirring to spectacular.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe masters featured in \u003ci\u003eThe Pastry Chef’s Apprentice \u003c\/i\u003eteach classic pastry skills, such as caramel, pate a choux, tart crusts, and more, to the amateur food enthusiast. Through extensive, diverse profiles of experienced experts plus fully illustrated tutorials and delicious recipes, the reader gets insider access to real-life chefs, bakers, culinary instructors, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith these new skills—or just the chance to revisit their old standards—everyone from casual cooks to devoted epicures will learn dozens of new ways to take their kitchen skills to the next level.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeatured chefs include:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e— Laurent   Branlard, USA: restaurateur and Executive Pastry Chef at the Swan and Dolphin Resorts at Disney World\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e— Frederic   Deshayes, France: Chief Pastry \u0026amp; Bakery Instructor at At-Sunrice  GlobalChef Academy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e— Thaddeus   Dubois, USA: former White House Executive Pastry Chef and Culinary Mentor\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e— Robert   Ellinger, UK\/USA: owner of Baked to Perfection, founder of the Guild of Baking and Pastry Arts, and international pastry competition judge\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e— Lauren V. Haas, USA: Assistant Pastry Chef at Albert Uster Imports and Instructor at Johnson \u0026amp; Wales  University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e— Thomas Haas,  Germany\/USA\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e— En-Ming Hsu, USA: Chef Instructor at the French Pastry  School in Chicago\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e— William   Leaman, USA: World Champion Baker and Owner of Bakery Nouveau in Seattle\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e— Iginio   Massari, Italy: Author, Restaurateur, and Founder of the Academy  of Italian Master Pastry Chefs\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e— Kanjiro   Mochizuki, Japan: Executive Pastry Chef at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e— Ewald   Notter, Switzerland\/USA: Founder and Director of Education of Notter  School of Pastry Arts\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e— Kim Park,  South Korea: owner of the Green House Bakery and captain of South Korea’s national pastry team\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e— Jordi   Puigvert, Spain: founder of Sweet‘n Go, consultant, and professor at the School of the Hotel de Girona in Spain\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e— Anil Rohira,  India\/Switzerland: Corporate Pastry Chef for Felchlin Switzerland and coach and judge for national and international competitions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e— Sébastien   Rouxel, France\/USA: Executive Pastry Chef for the Thomas Keller Restaurant Group\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e— Kirsten   Tibballs, Australia: Founder of Savour Chocolate and Patisserie  School in Melbourne\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e— Franz   Ziegler, Switzerland: Author and Consultant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quarry Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47148030984432,"sku":"9781610580274","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781610580274_p0.jpg?v=1763838756","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781610580274","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}