Everything you can ask for in a book. In short, Files is much more than a book for using, it is a masterful compendium of various studies, developments of unique recipes, reflections on today and tomorrow, comparative, interesting and innovative techniques and innovative applications. In total, almost a hundred creations among which the reader will find plated desserts, bonbons, bars, macarons, cakes, cotton cheesecakes, choux, tarts, entremets, tartlets, snacks, ice cream …
Organized like a file folder, Files contains 15 projects that are very different from each other and in which a large part of the different disciplines of current pastry are addressed: Pure 5, or the five fundamental flavors in a bonbon format; Invasion of the plants, or the world of vegetables in pastry; Trends, or how new social trends are expressed through creative recipes; Chocolate x Wine, or the sommelier François Chartier’s new mathematics of taste applied to chocolate, 1 + 1 = 3; Haiti, or how to create a product line around a new chocolate; The Ganache, a scientifically based study on this emblematic creation, with vegan versions, one shot, water-based, for long conservation, and the revolutionary praline ganache; Nuts, or how to better integrate nuts in pastry; Find your Style, deep multidisciplinary study on the so-called healthy pastry; Pastry & Anthropology, or how the change in consumption habits and concepts such as slow, personalization, or nutrition currently affect and will affect the work of the pastry chef; Cotton cake collection, or the definitive study on this peculiar Japanese cake; WholeFruit, and so on up to the 15 mentioned projects.