Inside the Egg with Pastry Chef Mauricio Santelice
March 28, 2014
Don’t Mention Bananas to Davio’s Executive Chef Chad Brown
March 30, 2014
“Everyone knows I’m pastry only, [but] I hate flour. Flour is the component that I hate the most – so messy, so dusty. Everybody tells me, ‘You’re the pastry chef and you hate so much flour.’ I keep telling all my employees, ‘Do not ever dust flour on the table. We’re gonna use spray, so it doesn’t stick.’ And when I have to work with flour and I’m covered in flour, I’m like, ‘Oh, my God!’
“I hate it, because when I grew up, my mother had a little bakery. And my duty was to clean the bakery after school. It was so dusty with flour. So I have an issue with flour. But it’s funny, being a pastry chef.”
Interview and photos by Kara Chin and Flickr User Vancityallie
Battman
Alan Batt, better known in the culinary world as simply Battman, began his career as a photographer in 1981 shooting photos of city scenes and landmark sites of New York City. He began taking food photography in 2001, and has since become one of New York City's most recognizable culinary personalities. Battman is often seen riding his bicycle up and down the streets of Manhattan as he travels to and from photo shoots and meetings with the chefs.
