The Jam Fairy
Christine Ferber of Alsace, France.
Christine Ferber is one of the greatest pastry chefs in France and considered by many to be the top jam maker on the planet.
Pastries
Montreal’s Best Croissants
Your guide to pastry bliss.
Five places to find the city’s top croissants.
Nugateau Toronto, and the Rise of the Éclair
Puff piece.
Once a bit of a dessert wallflower, inventive incarnations of the cream-filled choux batons have debuted worldwide; the éclair has been transformed into a confection as showy and scene-stealing as a full-fledged drag queen.
Galette des Rois
A celebratory treat for the Epiphany.
It would be a pity to consider New Year’s Day the last of winter’s festivities, particularly since January sixth marks the Epiphany, a traditional Christian commemoration of the Jesus’s baptism and the arrival of the three wise men, celebrated with (what else?) cake.
