People’s Best Pastry Chef winner

Wed., April 10, 2013

Lorie Hutson

And the winner is… not Lynette Pflueger.

Food & Wine magazine editors announced Tuesday that the winner of the People’s Best Pastry Chef Competition is Jodi Elliot of Foreign & Domestic in Austin, Texas. The link for all of the details is here . After 25 years of picking the nation’s best new chef, Food & Wine magazine editors asked readers to get into the action and pick the country’s best new pastry chef.

Congratulations to Pflueger for her nomination .

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Too Many Cooks." Read all stories from this blog

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