Английская Википедия:Elisabeth Prueitt

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Elisabeth “Liz” Prueitt is a pastry chef and along with her husband Chad Robertson, the owner of the San Francisco bakery chain Tartine.[1]

She has been described as both a “brilliant pastry chef”[1] and a “pastry prodigy.”[2]

Early life

Elisabeth Prueitt is native of Park Slope,[3] Brooklyn.

Prueitt first studied acting, then photojournalism, then enrolled in the Culinary Institute of America's chef’s training program (not pastry), then interned and line-cooked at Montrachet, in NYC, then returned to the Culinary Institute of America.[3]

Prueitt graduated from The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York.[1] Prueitt and Robertson met at the CIA.[2]

Prueitt was enrolled in the Culinary Institute of America's baking and pastry program.[3]

At 20, Robertson, from West Texas,[4] smelled bread from Richard Bourdon's Berkshire Mountain Bakery in Housatonic, Massachusetts, who referred Robertson to Patrick Le Port, of Savoie.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

In 1994, Prueitt and Robertson traveled to, and worked through, France, learning from Daniel Collin[12] (in Provence) and Patrick Le Port[13] (in Savoie).[5]

Career

Prueitt and Chad Robertson,[4] ran the Wood-Fire Baking[14][15] in Point Reyes and Bay Village Breads[14] in Mill Valley.[16]

Robertson and Prueitt then opened their first Tartine location in 2002. Bar Tartine, and in 2011, Tartine Sandwich followed.[2]

Personal life

Prueitt went into premature labor, and their daughter was diagnosed with cerebral palsy.[3]

Prueitt was a co-founder of Productive Learning Center of San Francisco. The school for children with motor disabilities is a non profit.[2]

Awards and honors

References

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