World’s top pastry chef has Instagram followers ‘wanting to lick the screen’
Pastry chef Cédric Grolet, whose desserts have been described as ‘food porn’, has been named top pâtissier on the planet, and is an Instagram superstar
When Cédric Grolet takes out his pastry knife, millions of mouths water.
The young Frenchman, named the top pâtissier on the planet last month by “The World’s 50 Best Restaurants” list, is an Instagram superstar.
Millions more drool over images of his glossy hyper-realistic pears, apricots, lemons, peaches and even tomatoes, with Vogue – a magazine not known for its championing of high-calorie desserts – saying they “leave you wanting to lick the screen”.
“His fans cry, fall into his arms and demand autographs” and selfies, said the usually sober French daily Le Monde.
His work is pure “food porn”, it declared, with only a select few getting the chance to consummate their desire every day at the top Paris hotel where he works.
I would make bread all night so that I would be allowed to make the desserts at 11 in the morning. My reward was to be able to slice the apples and cover the tarts in strawberries.
With high tea at Le Meurice featuring his cakes sometimes booked weeks in advance, Grolet opened a tiny boutique there in March.