Because Jean Clauss was
so old-fashioned and set in
his ways (like every true
Alsatian), he didn’t use
much parchment paper in
his pastry shop, and silpats
didn’t exist back then. We
would pipe miroirs directly
onto black steel sheet pans.
Part of my job as a first-
year apprentice was
cleaning those sheet pans—
about 100 of them—every
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(Chris Devlin)
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