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Dear Reader,
Hello! And welcome again to the sticky-sweet world of ‘way too many Cavities’.
In this, our fourth issue, we take a little detour away from our strictly ‘professional’ and cutting-edge technique-driven outlook to modern pastry and go instead, back to basics. Where in other issues we have invited 4-5 chefs to do incredibly deep dives into one specific dessert, here, in what I am calling my -
‘Class of Cookie’
I invite 22 contributors from across the food industry to each contribute their go-to favorite cookie.
These contributors - they are pastry chefs, yes. But they are also journalists, they are also cuisiniers and restaurateurs. They are entrepreneurs, and they are artists. They are us, yes, but they are also you - because the joys of pastry (or in this case, cookies) are for everyone.
With this, I invite you to rediscover within yourself the latent gift of cavities - for the Class of Cookie is now in session.
Yours,
Chef Prateek Bakhtiani
ABOUT CAVITIES
Cavities is an Annual publication that aims to celebrate the best of modern pastry in India.
By getting some of the most talented pastry chefs to share insights, know-how, and recipes centered around the theme of each issue, Cavities attempts to seed a community for pastry chefs in the country. These newly opened channels of communication, we hope, will foster easier exchange of ideas and push the industry forward as it grows to be a globally competitive center for talent in modern patisserie.
A digital copy of Cavities is available to the larger professional community, and casual pastry enthusiasts alike - to download for free through the Ether Atelier website, and the money from the sale of all print copies is fed back into sustaining the project for another year.
CONTRIBUTORS TO 004:
Chef Anahita Dhondy
Chef Saloni Kukreja
Chef Pooja Dhingra
Chef Hussain Shahzad
Chef Dean Rodrigues
Chef Prateek Bakhtiani
Gauri Devidayal
Roshni Bajaj
Aatish Nath
Chef Maria Goretti
Chef Tejasvi Chandela
Chef Eureka Araujo
Chef Nuzha Ebrahim
Chef Girish Nayak
Chef Anushka Malkani
Larissa Guimaraes
Chef Isha Shetty
Chef Manali Khandelwal
Chef Ruby Islam
Chef AliAkbar Baldiwala
Chef Urvika Kanoi
Chef Seefah Ketchaiyo
CONVERSATIONS:
CAVITIES does CULTURE 004
Cultural addenda that bring context to the central themes discussed in the issue.
COOKIES: a personal history
Aatish Nath
Freelance food and travel writer, Aatish Nath - a frequent contributor to publications ranging from National Geographic Traveller to Vogue - shares a personal history of coming of age in the time of cookies.
COOKIES on CANVAS
Larissa Guimaraes
Larissa Guimaraes - architect, art historian, and international art Specialist at Astaguru Auction house - takes us on a quest for cookies down the vitrines of Art history.
PUBLICATION: August 2024
SIZE: 200mm X 260mm
WEIGHT: 400g
