For the 1st time in US history Team USA wins the highly coveted World Pastry Championships consecutively in 2002, 2004, 2006 & 2008.
Sponsored by Amoretti® since 2005.
The Taste of Gold at the
Amoretti 2008 World Pastry Team Championship
the Olympics of the Pastry World!
(Oxnard, CA | USA - September 10, 2008) -
A week after the closing ceremonies in Beijing - Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals were once again awarded to the best and most talented teams in the world, but this time it was at the Amoretti 2008 World Pastry Team Championship. Hosted by Carymax, an event production company based in New York, the event took place at the Gaylord Opryland Convention Center & Resort in Nashville, Tennessee, on August 31 and September 1, 2008. The Amoretti-sponsored event attracted teams from Belgium, China, Italy, Mexico, Russia, South Korea, as well as Japan and Switzerland.
Team USA took the Gold medal, captained by Laurent Branlard, renowned Executive Pastry Chef at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Hotel, with teammates Stéphane Tréand, Executive Pastry Chef at the St. Regis Resort, Monarch Beach, California, and Dimitri Fayard, owner of Vanille Patisserie in Chicago, Illinois. The Silver medal was won by Team Japan and Team Switzerland took the Bronze.
The teams competed creating masterful entremets (cakes), entremet glacé (frozen desserts), three different types of chocolate bon bons and petits gateaux (small cakes), a pastillage tray (edible sugar-based decorative dough), and plated desserts, culminating with the pieces de resistance: the Sugar Showpiece and the Chocolate Showpiece. During the grueling 13-hour long competition, pounds of sugar were sprayed, blown, spun, stretched, twisted, and decorated into unique delectable art forms all inspired by the event theme Imagination.
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Praising the Bar
(Oxnard, CA | USA -- June 2007) The ultimate among pastry, chocolate, ice cream,savory, & beverage ingredient manufacturers, Amoretti® -
the Title Sponsor of the National as well as World Pastry Team
Championships since 2005 - has evolved into the bartending
scene.
Along with his brother Ara (Manufacturing President) and his
wife Maral (Marketing President) Jack Barsoumian (CEO),
is the creator and founder of a line of unparalleled flavors. “Amoretti
ingredients were created for perfection & not for profit”-
says Jack Barsoumian.
Highly educated in organic chemistry & cell molecular
biology & drawing upon his immense encyclopedic knowledge
of flavor relationships and profiles, he motivates drinkers
to praise the bar as well as the bartenders. “It’s
more art than science”, he smiles.
Amoretti® labels such as Mojito Libre™ ,
Pomegranate Solutions™, Capriccio Exotic Islands®,
Baristella® are among 1800 creations (and counting) that
carry his unique signature of celestial aromas, dense concentrations
and above all, unparalleled taste.
“The English language enjoys an incredibly rich poetry & literature
with just 26 letters in its alphabet, so imagine what you can create, with
a bit of imagination, with over 1800 Amoretti Ingredients”, says Maral Barsoumian.
So
let your imagination go wild & see unprecedented
success come your way.
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