P?tisserie Gluten Free: The Art of French Pastry: Cookies, Tarts, Cakes, and Puff Pastries - Paperback

Patricia Austin began her lifetime love of baking as a young child helping her father make doughnuts. At age seventeen, she became a croissant maker, and later worked as pastry chef assistant to Jeffrey Hamelman in Brattleboro, Vermont. From 1989 to 1996, she co-owned and operated the Bread Tree Bakery in Keene, New Hampshire. In 2005, Patricia founded her cottage industry, Wild Flour Vermont Bakery. She also works as a baking consultant and recipe developer and tester. Her most recent projects include recipe testing for world-renowned pastry chef Pierre Herm?'s book Pierre Herm?Macarons, as well as dessert testing for the MasterChef series cookbooks. While Patricia follows a gluten-free diet, she continues to create both traditional and gluten-free French, European, and American-style pastries. She lives in southern Vermont.