Show 29, May 18, 2013: Pastry Chef Sherry Yard

Sherry YardSherry Yard was Celebrity Chef Wolfgang Puck’s incredible executive pastry chef for Spago Beverly Hills and all his operations for twenty years! She created all the exquisite desserts for the Governor’s Ball Dinner as part of the Annual Academy Awards festivities for all the years they have been at the Dolby Theater (formerly the Kodak Theater) in Hollywood. She is the recipient of two prestigious James Beard Awards. Sherry also authored two must-have books on the pastry arts, The Secrets of Baking: Simple Techniques for Sophisticated Desserts, and Desserts by the Yard, Recipes from the Sweetest Life Ever.

Special thanks to the incredible Sherry Yard for flying back early from Boca Raton to guest-host the show. You’re the absolute best.

The James Beard Awards, the Oscars of the food world, are presented annually in early May at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Chefs put on their finery and celebrate achievement in the culinary arts.

Sherry shared her insights on being both a presenter as well as an award recipient at The Beard Awards. She recounted a very funny story about what was going on backstage when celebrated French chef Jacques Pepin (Trustee Emeritus of The James Beard Foundation) announced her name from the stage for her first Beard Award in 2002 for “Outstanding Pastry Chef.”

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