Learn to create light, delicious desserts with the newly enlarged “French Pastries and Desserts by Lenôtre” authored by the legendary master French pâtissier, Gaston Lenôtre and his daughter Sylvie. This cult-classic will continue to rejoice the lovers of french pastry arts around the world.
Sylvie and Alain Lenôtre wrote the foreword of this new edition, first published in 6 languages in 1977 and sold at more than 250,000 copies.
With its splendid new illustrations, this is a perfect gift, it will delight fans of the original and amaze those being introduced for the first time.
The legendary French culinary master Gaston Lenôtre (1920–2009) opened his first pastry shop with his wife, Colette, in Normandy in 1945. In Paris, a decade later, they have created 12 upscale patisseries, franchised in 4 countries before founding École Lenôtre with his son, Alain, in 1971, which has trained the world’s leading pastry chefs.
Alain Lenôtre and his wife, Marie, together founded, in 1988, the CULINARY INSTITUTE LENOTRE® college in Houston, Texas, ranked as the #1 college for Culinary Arts in America by Niche.