Marie-Antoine Carême
French pastry chef and cook (1784–1833). Known for architectural pièces montées of sugar and pastry, inspired by engravings of architecture.
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People & Authors
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Pastry chefs
The creators of desserts known by name.
Franz Sacher
In 1832, as a 16-year-old apprentice in Vienna, he created a cake for Prince Metternich — the future Sachertorte.
Vladimir Guralnik
The pastry chef who created the Bird's Milk cake in 1978 at the Praga restaurant in Moscow.
Cookbook authors
The people who put pastry-making down on paper.
Marie-Antoine Carême as an author
Author of Le Pâtissier pittoresque (1815), a book of designs for decorative desserts.
Prosper Montagné
Author of the French gastronomic encyclopedia Larousse Gastronomique, first published in 1938.
A name on the dessert
People who had cakes named after them.
Anna Pavlova
A ballerina who toured Australia and New Zealand in 1926; the Pavlova is named in her honor. She herself was not a pastry chef.
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Related sections
Related sections
- HistoryA dessert timeline: from Carême to the Bird's Milk cake.
- Reading ListsReading paths for beginners and for those who want to go deeper.
- CalendarA calendar of holiday baking: Epiphany, Maslenitsa, Easter, Christmas.
Sources
- Marie-Antoine Carême. Le Pâtissier pittoresque (1815)
- Larousse Gastronomique (1938)
- Encyclopedia entries on the Sachertorte, the Pavlova and the Bird's Milk (Ptichye Moloko) cake
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