Pastry Love: A Baker's Journal of Favorite Recipes

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Calling all French pastry lovers - join us for a delicious evening! The French Library is honored to welcome Joanne Chang, chef and co-owner of Flour Bakery + Café, to discuss her new book Pastry Love.

Come ready with your questions as our author talk will be followed by a Q&A session, with a book signing and delicious pastries from Pastry Love made at Flour Bakery + Café!

Advance RSVP is strongly recommended. Event in English.

Books will be available for purchase during the book signing and reception following the talk. *No refunds will be given for this event.

Member

$15

Non-member

$23

About Pastry Love

The recipes are approachable, imaginative as well as traditional, and ones that readers will earmark to make over and over again. 125 recipes for everything from breakfast pastries, sweet and savory breads, pies, cakes, candies, and stunning desserts fill this heartwarming collection.

About Joanne Chang

An honors graduate of Harvard College with a degree in Applied Mathematics and Economics, Joanne Chang left a career as a management consultant to enter the world of professional cooking. She is the chef and co-owner of Flour Bakery + Café, with eight locations in the Boston area, and Myers + Chang. She is the 2016 winner of the James Beard award for Outstanding Baker and the author of five acclaimed cookbooks. She lives in Boston.

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