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The Sweetest Thing

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Sepia: The Cuisine of Martin Benn

Published 2014

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Patience is Bitter, But its Fruit is Sweet.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I’m not a pastry chef. I’ve never been formally trained in the discipline, and I don’t possess all the skills of this precise form. Back at school, my college lecturer told me I’d never be a pastry chef, and I held on to that comment for a long time. When you’re young, you often avoid doing something because you are told you can’t do it. You end up knuckling down at the things you excel at, or alternatively, get praise for. As a result, desserts and the art of pastry was an area I deliberately avoided...

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