Friday, March 18, 2011

(For Wednesday 3/16) Kings of Pastry - 2009

When you can't eat it, you should watch it!

Yeah...and now all I want is cake and candy. Maybe that's NOT such an intelligent suggestion. This documentary takes you into the lives of pastry chefs entering a prestigious annual competition called "Meilleur Ouvrier de France"...where pastry chefs show off their mad skills in design creation of pastries and candies and chocolates.

You get up-close and personal with these guys as they work on their designs tirelessly and anxiously - over and over - before the competition begins. Wives, girlfriends and family members make up a support system for them and they all seem to take the attitude that second-best is worth absolutely nothing.

The seriousness that these men take their craft borderlines between shocking and almost puzzling. I understand cooking is an art - and I understand that those who dedicate their lives to it take it VERY seriously - but in this documentary you feel as though sugar and water are the lifeblood of these people. Grown men are in hysterics over a candy statue collapsing. I understand it took a lot of work, but I couldn't help but feel a little ooged out by the fact that it's still just sugar and water.

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