Love of Chocolate: Norman's Delectable Career as a Chef
By Marianne SalinaNorman Love's career as a chef has to make your mouth water. He's been a corporate pastry chef at the Ritz Carlton, overseeing desserts and pastries, he's been featured on the PBS series "baking with Julia," and now, he makes signature chocolates. Soaring in his pastry chef job at the Ritz, Love earned international respect for his elegant sweets, and now, enhancing his career as a chef, he's created the "G" collection for Godiva. For Love, this line of refined chocolates is a way to combine his passion for chocolate with his love for art...and everyone wants a piece!
Pastry Chef School
Love for chocolate and elegance have certainly fueled Love's career as a chef, both in his pastry chef job and now as a purveyor of chocolates. The careful study and perfection of his art, however, have come from pastry chef school. Early in his career, Love studied in a small pastry shop in southern France. He now teaches at different pastry schools; providing fundamentals for those who aspire to hold a pastry chef job. Love offers courses all over the country, demonstrating candy making or the creation of tarts and cakes--useful skills for any number of chef jobs.
Sweet Success
Chocolatier Magazine named Love one of the top ten pastry chefs and he won the prestigious James Beard Award for his cookbook,Baking with Julia. With his recent G collection, which sells out in Godiva stores every year, his career as a chef is one to be emulated. Fortunately, he harbors an equal passion for teaching and often teaches some of his secrets to those attending his pastry chef school classes. Visions of chocolate decadence and studying under Mr. Love's expertise should have everyone enrolling in pastry chef school.
Sources
Norman Love '03 HDR (http://culinary.jwu.edu/content527.html)
Godiva Chocolatier (http://www.godiva.com/G/norman_love.asp)
G Collection: New Gourmet collection from Godiva Chocolatier (http://www.godiva.com/about/pr_gcollection.asp)
Marianne Salina is a freelance writer in Spokane, Washington. She writes about pursuits in education and degree opportunities.
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