For the last several years, I’ve noticed a terrifying trend: Major magazines and food publications say that pastry chefs are going extinct. As a pastry chef myself, this is bad news, to say the least.

Dufour Pastry Kitchens, based in New York, is adored by home cooks for its frozen puff pastry sheets — it has won awards — with an incredibly buttery flavor and all-natural ingredients. After thawing, ...

'Chef’s Table: Pastry' isn’t the first time that the media has ignored women’s domination of the pastry sector. Women have long been relegated to the pastry section of the professional kitchen: ...

Editor's note: This is the first piece in Joanne Chang's new series about demystifying pastry for home cooks. To try her recipe for Flour Bakery + Cafe's chocolate chip cookies, click here. Pastry is ...