His colleagues don't know it. But this Certified Master Pastry Chef based in Wine Country is also a championship motorcycle ...

Savory chefs and pastry chefs enjoy using a variety of apples for cooking, but they all love these green-skinned Australian beauties.

Food & Wine names the Best New Chefs in the United States each year. Meet the chefs, explore their restaurants and concepts, follow tours of their cities' dining scenes, and celebrate our ...

Most pastry kitchens are tiny. A convection oven; a proofing rack; a giant Hobart mixer, looking like a squat, gunmetal-gray R2-D2; a long prep table (in marble for chocolate, if you're lucky) for ...

Another Naples chef will be in the national spotlight soon, with Blackbird Modern Asian's executive pastry chef Denise Elrod returning to Food Network's cooking show "Guy's Grocery Games." ...

I really think that pastry chefs now are coming into their own in the world of cooking. Forever we’ve been the backbone of a restaurant, supporting all the savory elements of a restaurant.

An executive chef named Rudy Fisher soon took Clark under his wing. It was a big break. Fisher would "make" Clark, taking him along as his pastry chef for the next 20 years.

Pastry chef Denise Elrod, from Blackbird Modern Asian in Jupiter, makes a second appearance on the Food Network’s "Guy’s Grocery Games" that will air on Wednesday, Aug. 13.

The winners and their recipes will be featured in the May issue of FOOD & WINE, on newsstands April 13, and on foodandwine.com. The Best New Pastry Chefs program is sponsored by GODIVA.

BAKING Chef makes it easy for beginners to bake like pros By Emily Luchetti, Special to The ChronicleJuly 10, 2011 A finished blueberry and peach pie sits on the counter at pastry chef Emily ...