https://crystal.kitchen/tag/francois-payard/ Recent content in Francois Payard on adventures of an omnomnomnivore in NYC Hugo en-US Sun, 02 Mar 2014 18:32:23 -0500 https://crystal.kitchen/2014/03/02/hit-it-like-a-mal-boyfriend-and-other-lessons-from-chef-francois-payard/ Sun, 02 Mar 2014 18:32:23 -0500 https://crystal.kitchen/2014/03/02/hit-it-like-a-mal-boyfriend-and-other-lessons-from-chef-francois-payard/ <p><a href="https://crystal.kitchen/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img_68051.jpg"><img src="https://crystal.kitchen/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img_68051.jpg" alt="Francois Payard"></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.payard.com/">François Payard</a> is a top pastry chef, a long-standing innovator in New York’s dessert scene and winner of a James Beard award in 1995. Which is why it’s incredibly jarring when he’s looking at you from 10 feet away, asking what’s in egg whites. “Yes you, I’m looking at YOU in the second row,” he says. “Uh,” you stammer, “it can’t be lecithin because that’s in yolks…so albumin?”</p>