DESSERTS BY PIERRE HERME

Pierre Hermé, dubbed the Picasso of Pastry by Vogue magazine, is a fourth-generation pastry chef. Raised in Alsace, he apprenticed to the legendary Gaston Lenôtre when he was just fourteen and at twenty-four took over the famed pastry kitchens of Fauchon in Paris. It was at Fauchon that his extraordinary dessert repertoire began gaining worldwide attention. In 1997 he was decorated as a Chevalier of Arts and Letters and named France’s Pastry Chef of the Year. He has pastry shops in Paris and Tokyo and is the author of several books.