https://crystal.castle.cc/tag/pastry/ Recent content in Pastry on adventures of an omnomnomnivore in NYC Hugo en-US Sun, 02 Mar 2014 18:32:23 -0500 https://crystal.castle.cc/2014/03/02/hit-it-like-a-mal-boyfriend-and-other-lessons-from-chef-francois-payard/ Sun, 02 Mar 2014 18:32:23 -0500 https://crystal.castle.cc/2014/03/02/hit-it-like-a-mal-boyfriend-and-other-lessons-from-chef-francois-payard/ <p><a href="https://crystal.castle.cc/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img_68051.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" src="https://crystal.castle.cc/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img_68051.jpg" alt="Francois Payard" width="600" height="800" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-2068" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.payard.com/" target="_blank">François Payard</a> is a top pastry chef, a long-standing innovator in New York&#8217;s dessert scene and winner of a James Beard award in 1995. Which is why it&#8217;s incredibly jarring when he&#8217;s looking at you from 10 feet away, asking what&#8217;s in egg whites. &#8220;Yes you, I&#8217;m looking at YOU in the second row,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Uh,&#8221; you stammer, &#8220;it can&#8217;t be lecithin because that&#8217;s in yolks&#8230;so albumin?&#8221;</p>