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Pastry Week | Panel Conversation with Caroline Schiff and Stacey Mei Yan Fong

Culinary, Talk/Lecture
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Get ready for a lively evening of insight and indulgence at our Pastry Week Panel and Cookie Competition, featuring celebrated pastry chefs Caroline Schiff and Stacey Mei Yan Fong. Join us for a candid conversation as these two creative forces share stories from their baking journeys, explore the intersection of food and identity, and dish out advice for aspiring bakers. Then, the heat turns up with a community cookie competition—where guests have the chance to go head-to-head to impress our panel of experts and win sweet bragging rights. Come for the conversation, stay for the cookies, and celebrate the joy of baking in all its forms. 

There are limited spots for the cookie contest. To enter the contest, you must purchase a ticket to the panel conversation. Guests will be able to sample cookies from each contestant and take a few of their favorites home.  

If you are interested in participating in the cookie contest, please prepare 2 dozen of your favorite cookies to share with the judges and attendees. Each contestant will also need to provide a list of any allergens present in your recipe (e.g. nuts, dairy, gluten, eggs). This helps us keep everyone informed and safe. 

Tickets are $15 ($10/members) reserve your spot online or with the Box Office at (479) 657-2335 today. 

 

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Pastry Week | Dec 3 - 6

Celebrate the art of baking during Pastry Week, a multi-day culinary experience filled with flavor, creativity, and community. Join renowned pastry chefs Caroline Schiff and Stacey Mei Yan Fong for hands-on workshops, a lively panel discussion, and film screenings that celebrate the world of pastry. 

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Pastry Week | Dec 3 - 6

ABOUT THE CHEFS

Stacey Mei Yan Fong

Stacey Mei Yan Fong is an IACP award winning baker and author living in Brooklyn, NY. She was born in Singapore, lived in Indonesia, grew up in Hong Kong, and moved to the States to pursue a degree from the Savannah College of Art and Design. She spent a decade designing in the fashion industry, and during that time she launched her “50 Pies 50 States” project which led to her slinging pies at Four and Twenty Blackbirds Pie Shop. Her work has been featured by Good Morning America, NPR, CBS Sunday Morning, The James Beard Foundation, America’s Test Kitchen, Eater, and beyond.

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Caroline Schiff

Caroline Schiff is an award-winning pastry chef and cookbook author in Brooklyn, NY with nearly two decades of experience in restaurants, bakeries, and cafés. She is widely known by her instagram moniker, @pastryschiff and was most recently the Executive Pastry Chef at Brooklyn’s acclaimed Gage & Tollner (where she created her infamous baked alaska). Caroline is also a Food and & Wine Best New Chef 2022, James Beard Outstanding Pastry Chef Finalist 2022 and author of The Sweet of Sourdough. Next up, she plans to open her first brick and mortar concept (a diner) in New York and release her sophomore cookbook Daily Dessert.