With the main course complete, it only seems right to go on to everyone’s favorite part of dinner---dessert. The Kings of Pastry introduces us to Chef Jacquy Pfeiffer whose dream is to become the winner of the Meilleur Ouvrier de France (Best Craftsman). Competing against 15 other French chefs, Pfieffer rigorously trains like an Olympic athlete in the kitchen, perfecting sugar work, outrageously inventive layer cakes and chocolate sculptures, all having to be perfect over a three day competition in Lyon, France. Who would have thought that baking could have you on the edge of your seat, sometimes gasping as the unthinkable happens before your eyes? The attachment and emotion that are created as the egg whites are whipped and the final ribbons of sugar are placed is surprising and wonderfully satisfying … just like a chocolate layer cake.
Food and film go hand in hand like peanut butter and jelly, but it’s important to know our food’s origins before we can appreciate its flavor. Finding these lesser known, yet vitally important documentary films will not only whet your appetite, it’ll enlighten you as well. Now that’s a satisfying meal of films.