Gale Gand

Pastry Chef

Gale Gand is the executive pastry chef at Cenitare Restaurants. Owner of Gale’s Coffee Bar, a small "grab-and-go" pastry and coffee shop, Gale is also partner of the acclaimed restaurant Tru in Chicago. Known across the country as the host of Sweet Dreams, which was the Food Network’s first daily show devoted entirely to baking, Gale is recognized as "one of the best pastry chefs in the United States" by Pat Bruno, restaurant critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. Outside her culinary endeavors, Gale is an established author publishing six books with her most recent book, "Chocolate and Vanilla," published in October 2006.

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