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Pastry schools in France! HELP!
Sorry to hear about that blancgeneration...I thought it would be a fantastic program! Did you end up staying and completing the program?
Pastry schools in France! HELP!
Is that the school that was featured in the Kings of Pastry film a few years back? I don't think the basic pastry program would work for me, but do they have an intermediate level of pastry classes?
International pastry programs in Japan/Korea/China?
I just got back from some basic training in French pastry, but I'm looking now to expand that. I've been looking for a program that offers classes in English or French, but other than food names and anime slogans, I know no Japanese or Korean, but I love the pastries that stem from these cultures. I'd love to learn more, but I think it's best to learn FROM that country. If I can't get to a school there that's able to teach me, I'm open to suggestions about pastry schools elsewhere, but I would like to focus on Asian pastries (it doesn't have to be just sweets, I'd love to learn to make Chinese buns too!). Does anyone know where I'd be able to find a school like that? Or even an internship where I'd be able to learn by doing?
I just want to make pastries all day. But not in my own kitchen because I found out this weekend while baking my grandma's birthday cake that my oven doesn't even fit a quarter sheet cake pan. Is that too much to ask?
Pastry schools in France! HELP!
Wow I don't know what happened but I thought no one ever responded to my original question! I see how wrong I am! :P
chanjying--I went to ENSP in the end, for the international program, which had good and bad points. I never heard anything about Bellouet while I was in France for 7 months, swimming in an ocean of pastry chefs and pastry chefs in training, so personally I think it was a good choice not to go to there. Ferrandi and Lenotre seemed the two most popular, and Bajard was a distant 3rd but that doesn't mean it's not reputable or worthwhile. Did anyone else here end up going to pastry school?
I'm also looking for a second school, maybe in Japan or New York or something, to further develop pastry...I'm looking to do this as a career, but I know I need more training. Does anyone have any suggestions for THAT? :P
Pastry schools in France! HELP!
Hi!
I'm looking for some advice! I want to go to France to learn to make sweet sweet pastries. But I'm a little at a loss for what school I should be going to. Le Cordon Bleu is of course huge and famous, but is it necessarily better than smaller, independent schools?
Olivier Bajard's school pops up frequently but the timing doesn't work out, same for LeNotre and Ecole national patisserie et boulangerie. The one that does work out is Ecole bellouet conseil, but I've never heard of this school before, and also I can't find much info about it that isn't direct from their website. Anyone know about Bellouet conseil? It had a good reputation 20 years ago...does that reputation still stand? Any other schools to suggest/ward off? :)
Any advice would be great!
