Chicago’s venerable pastry artiste Gale Gand will discuss the vintage cookbooks, pamphlets and ephemera she owns that influence her work as a pastry chef, as well as some culinary history such as the ...

France's dominance is being challenged in many areas, but it remains unrivaled in one field: pastry. A source of national pride, French pastry embodies an unparalleled savoir-faire, drawing enormous ...