A pastry chef today to talk about the holidays, but not just any holiday: Nina Metayer was elected, a few weeks ago, best pastry chef in the world 2023!
Published on 12/29/2023 3:14 p.m. Updated on 12/29/2023 3:25 p.m.
Reading time: 4 min Nina Metayer was named best pastry chef in the world 2023 in the fall. She poses here in her laboratory in Issy-les-Moulineaux. (JOËL SAGET / AFP)
She is the first French woman to obtain this prestigious title. At 35, Nina Metayer became the best pastry chef in the world, after being elected by her peers from the International Union of Bakers and Pastry Chefs. “This rewards the daily work of an entire team, as well as the fact of being a business leader, training, transmitting and delighting our customers every day. It is a source of pride for all members of the team.”
Nina Metayer is a young woman who loves entrepreneurship. She had already been voted best pastry chef by the magazine Leader then by the Gault and Millau when she was not yet 30 years old. His first steps in baking brought him a lot. Obtaining breads so varied and in such large numbers from the three basic elements (salt, flour and water) remains a constant amazement for her.
Baker’s skills
Nina therefore uses her baking skills in baking: “The very instinctive side of the bakerexplains the young woman. It’s not just the weighings, the recipes, there’s also the texture of what we do, the feeling. When is the right time for a particular action, to add an ingredient, or to stop cooking. My work is my passion.”
If Nina Metayer offers her pastries in two physical points of sale, the Biltoky halls in Issy-les-Moulineaux and the Printemps du Goût in Paris, she still relies on her online store, Délicatesserie. As for the holidays, it is a highly anticipated period for the young woman, both for reasons of high production, but also for more personal reasons: “It’s the accomplishment of a year of work for a pastry chef, like an exclamation point. As a child, I spent warm moments with my parents, we made little pastries. I love simple things: a good hot chocolate and a crumble in front of a fireplace for example…”
Nina Metayer, best pastry chef in the world 2023, a young woman who is always so simple and smiling, who always has 1000 projects in mind, and who prepares cakes to die for.
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