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Name
  
Gale Gand

Role
  
Pastry chef

Parents
  
Myrna Gand, Bob Gand


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Born
  
November 21, 1956 (age 68) (
1956-11-21
)

Cooking style
  
Contemporary American cuisine

Education
  
Rochester Institute of Technology

Spouse
  
Jimmy Seidita (m. 2003), Rick Tramonto (m. 1996–2002)

Awards
  
James Beard Award for Outstanding Pastry Chef, James Beard Award for Outstanding Service

Nominations
  
James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant

Books
  
Butter Sugar Flour Eggs, Gale Gand's Lunch!, Gale Gand's Just a Bite: 12, Gale Gand's Short and, American Brasserie: 180 Simp

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Gale Gand is a Chicago-based pastry chef, cookbook author, television personality, and winner of the 2001 James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Pastry Chef. Gand was the host of the Food Network show Sweet Dreams. She was the Chef-in-Residence at Elawa Farm, in Lake Forest, Illinois. Gand is a partner and was the founding Executive Pastry Chef at Tru, a contemporary fine-dining restaurant affiliated with Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises. Gand and her partners at Tru won the 2007 James Beard Foundation Award for Service. She has blogged for the Huffington Post, was a contestant on Iron Chef America in the 2006-2007 season, and was a judge on Bravo's Top Chef in 2008 for the episode Wedding Wars. Gand was also featured on the Great Chefs television program.

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Biography

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A native of Deerfield, Illinois, Gand began her restaurant career in 1976 working as a line cook and waitress in Cleveland, Ohio, and then as a pastry chef in Rochester, New York. She later did pastry in New York City at The Gotham Bar and Grill and in England at Stapleford Park.

In 1993, Gand opened Trio with culinary partner and ex-husband Rick Tramonto and Henry Adaniya in Evanston, Illinois and was named among Food and Wine Magazine's Top Ten Best New Chefs in 1994. In 1999, she opened Tru with Tramonto and Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises's Rich Melman.

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In 1996, Gand was chosen by Julia Child to appear on two episodes of the PBS show Baking with Julia.

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Gand was the host of the Food Network show "Sweet Dreams" that ran on the network from 2000-2008. She got the show without a try out when calling the network to confirm a date to be on Sarah Moulton's show where she was a frequent guest chef.

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In 2014, she partnered with Steve McDonagh and Dan Smith (The Hearty Boys) to open SpritzBurger, a 2-year "pop-up" in Chicago.

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Also in 2014, Gand was inducted into the Chicago Chef's Hall of Fame.

Books by Gale Gand

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  • Tramonto, Rick, and Gale Gand. 1997. American Brasserie. New York: Wiley.
  • Gand, Gale, Rick Tramonto, and Julia Moskin. 1999. Butter Sugar Flour Eggs: Whimsical Irresistible Desserts. New York: Clarkson Potter.
  • Gand, Gale and Julia Moskin. 2001. Gale Gand's Just a Bite: 125 Luscious Little Desserts. New York: Clarkson Potter.
  • Gand, Gale and Julia Moskin. 2004. Gale Gand's Short and Sweet: Quick Desserts with Eight Ingredients or Less. New York: Clarkson Potter.
  • Tramonto, Rick, Gale Gand, and Mary Goodbody. 2004. Tru: A Cookbook from the Legendary Chicago Restaurant. New York: Random House.
  • Gand, Gale and Lisa Weiss. 2006. Chocolate and Vanilla. New York: Clarkson Potter.
  • Gand, Gale, with Christie Matheson. 2009. Gale Gand's Brunch!: 100 Fantastic Recipes for the Weekend's Best Meal. New York: Clarkson Potter.
  • Gand, Gale, with Christie Matheson. 2014. Gale Gand's Lunch!. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
  • References

    Gale Gand Wikipedia


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