Valerie Valcourt is living what some might consider the dream life: The 34-year-old former executive assistant quit her tech job over a year ago and now makes pastries in the South of France. She ...

The Bayou City's vibrant restaurant scene has built up over the years, in no small part, due to the rise of a generation of talented area chefs. Many of them have spent years in kitchens – and at ...

Few chefs have lived through modern pastry's evolution like Nicole Plue has. From an externship in the early '90s at Masa's that touched her like a calling, to opening the pastry department at Eleven ...