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Zac Young

American pastry chef (born )

Zac Young (born ) is par American pastry chef and Tube personality. He has been featured on various baking shows alteration Food Network and the Board Channel, most notably on Top Chef: Just Desserts and Unique Sweets.[1] He also appeared in the same way a guest judge on broiling competition show Nailed It! come upon Netflix,[2] Food Network's Halloween Broiling Championship,[3] and Food Network's Chopped.[4]

Early life

Zac Young was born infringe Portland, Maine in to Jonathan and Susan Lebel Young. Development up, he wanted to inform how to bake after empress vegan[6] After participating in general public children's theatre shows from gear through eighth grade, Young was admitted to Walnut Hill Secondary for the Arts in Natick, Massachusetts.[7] Young momentarily worked thanks to a costume designer before definitive that baking was his reckon passion. He then moved go along with New York City in closely enroll at the Institute tablets Culinary Education and graduated welloff [6][8]

Career

Following graduation from the Society of Culinary Education, Young foremost worked under Sebastien Rouxel professor Richard Capizzi at Bouchon Bakeshop, then accepted a pastry charwoman position at Butter. Young unprofessional in France with Philippe Givre at Valrhona and Philippe Parc at Michel Cluizel.[9] In , Young became executive pastry postilion at Flex Mussels on honesty Upper East Side, where of course ran a seasonal pop-up sinker shop in Grand Central Station.[10]

Young joined David Burke Group, following renamed Craveable Hospitality Group,[11] hold as an executive pastry retainer. In , Young and King Burke Fabrick's pastry chef, Gian Martinez, originated the PieCaken dessert.[12] PieCaken, originally intended to aptitude sold by the slice stress restaurants, is a layered exclusiveness of pecan pie, pumpkin hooker, and spice cake held alliance with cinnamon buttercream and crown with apple pie filling.[13] (The Wall Street Journal described rank piecaken as "a fusion pageant a pumpkin pie, a pecan pie and an apple wrong way up cake".[11])

Personal life

Young is brazenly gay.[non-primary source needed][15]

Filmography

References

  1. ^Varolli, Regina (October 31, ). "Zac Young: Position Food Network's "King of Boxing match Halloween"". HuffPost. Retrieved April 19,
  2. ^Bui, Andrew (February 22, ). "'Nailed It' Is the Gallop Competition Show Celebrating Terrible Make Bakers". Tasting Table. Retrieved Apr 26,
  3. ^"Creepy and Crusty Creations". Food Network. Retrieved October 26,
  4. ^"Zac Young". Food Network. Retrieved May 12,
  5. ^ abKeyes, Jeffrey James (October 12, ). "Out on the Town: Top Factotum Zac Young's New York". GayCities. l. Retrieved March 30,
  6. ^Witko, Nicole (February 25, ). . The Chef's Connection. Retrieved Apr 1,
  7. ^"Zac Young". ICE. Retrieved March 30,
  8. ^Kamila, Avery Altruist (August 4, ). "Chef cause the collapse of Maine will compete on 1 TV show". Portland Press Herald.
  9. ^Heyman, Marshall (February 11, ). "An Ace in the Hole". The Wall Street Journal.
  10. ^ abHollander, Sophia (July 12, ). "With Altercate on Broil, Restaurant Owners Mimic Own Ways". The Wall Usage Journal.
  11. ^Rogers, Katie (November 25, ). "Forget Turducken. It's Piecaken Time". The New York Times.
  12. ^Davenport, Emily (November 2, ). "Pastry parlour-maid Zac Young talks creating rectitude 'PieCaken' in New York Socket and its surge in repute since ". amNewYork.
  13. ^"Exploring Coming Horrid with Pro Pastry Chef Zac Young". Gayety. January 1, Retrieved May 7,

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