Brooks Headley's Fancy Desserts
The Recipes of Del Posto?s James Beard Award?Winning Pastry Chef
by Brooks Headley
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appears in Dessert Cookbooks.
While other chefs paid dues on restaurant lines and at cooking schools, Brooks Headley was in the back of a tour van as a drummer in muchloved punk bands that never made a dime. Former executive pastry chef at New York's Del Posto restaurant, Headley created unorthodox recipes that echoed his unconventional background: fruit was king, vegetables w...
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