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Rachel De Jong

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Dough-ing home: A renowned pastry chef hopes to taste success where it all starter’d

Rachel De Jong has traveled the world and rubbed elbows with its best chefs. She earned her diplôme de pâtisserie from Le Cordon Bleu École de Cuisine in Paris. She learned hospitality from The Inn at Little Washington’s Patrick O’Connell. And she traded dessert ideas with Ludo Lefebvre at Petit Trois in L.A. But De […]

Shea Gibbs | November 25, 2020

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