Kings of Pastry (2009) on Netflix
NR20091h 27mDocumentaryDramaFamily
Pastry chef Jacquy Pfeiffer leaves Chicago for France to compete for the Meilleur Ouvrier de France collar. In Lyon he and fifteen other finalists assemble wedding buffets for the judges.
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Plot summary
The Meilleur Ouvrier de France competition is held every four years, and in pastry the prize is the red, white and blue collar worn by the winners. For the 2007 final in Lyon, sixteen chefs are chosen from eighty semi-finalists. Jacquy Pfeiffer, who co-founded a pastry school in Chicago, returns to compete, and his business partner Sébastien Canonne, a past winner, coaches him. The theme is marriage, so the finalists must build a wedding buffet: a cake, chocolate and sugar sculptures, cream puffs, candies, pastries, jam and a small bijou. Everything except the bijou is made from scratch in front of the judges over three days. Pfeiffer adapts his recipes at his childhood home in Alsace. Regis Lazard competes a second time; Philippe Rigollot, of Maison Pic, competes for the first.
Cast
- Jacquy Pfeifferas Himself - MOF Finalist
- Sébastien Cannoneas Self
- Rachel Beaudryas Herself - Jacquy Pfeiffer's Girlfriend
- Philippe Rigollotas Himself - MOF Finalist
- Stephane Glacieras Himself - MOF
- Regis Lazardas Himself - MOF Finalist
- Frederique Lazardas Herself - Regis Lazard's Wife
- Philippe Urracaas Himself - MOF
- Sebastien Canonneas Himself - MOF
- Pierre Zimmermannas Himself - Baker
- Kurt Fogleas Himself - Jacquy Pfeiffer's Assistant Chef
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Kings of Pastry (2009)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Kings of Pastry is the first visual documentation of the Meilleur Ouvrier de France competition, which had never before been captured on film; the MOF committee granted Pennebaker Hegedus Films permission to film in Lyon only at the last minute, and stipulated that they use only certain sound and lighting equipment.
- On the final day of the competition the judges confined the camera team to designated three-foot square boxes drawn next to the assembly tables, having already restricted the crew to certain sound and lighting equipment.
