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By Olga NEDBAEVA PARIS, Nov 13, 2023 (AFP) – Nina Metayer, the first woman to win one of the world’s top pastry chef awards, doesn’t believe in cutting back on the butter. Metayer’s cakes have just won her the coveted “World Confectioner” award from the International Union of Bakers and Pastry Chefs. This is the first time the award has gone to a woman in its 92-year history. But you won’t find the 35-year-old following […]
Tehran, Iran (AFP) — She could have left Iran, as many of her contemporaries did, but Paris-trained pastry chef Shahrzad Shokouhivand decided to stay and work to make women’s lives better inside the country. And the icing on the cake? She and her husband now employ 70 people — mostly women. “It’s only by working here that we’ll change things in Iran,” said the 36-year-old, speaking to AFP in one of her two chic cafe-pastry […]
by Giovanna Girardi with Ella Ide in Rome Agence France-Presse TREVISO, Italy (AFP) — An Italian factory worker won the first ever Tiramisu World Cup on Sunday, beating 700 other amateurs to whip up the softest and creamiest version of Italy’s famous dessert. Hundreds of would-be pudding maestros descended on the city of Treviso armed with whisks and sieves to compete in the two-day challenge to make the best tiramisu, which means “pick-me-up” in Italian. […]
