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Pastry: “when I started this profession, I tried to masculinize myself”, confides pastry chef Nina Métayer
The first woman to be voted best pastry chef in the world, French chef Nina Métayer spoke about her profession on the set of 12/13 info. – (franceinfo)
The first woman to be voted best pastry chef in the world, French chef Nina Métayer spoke about her profession on the set of 12/13 info.
Three months ago, the International Union of Pastries and Bakers crowned Nina Métayer the best pastry chef in the world. She is the first French woman to win this title. “I share all of this with my teams who work on a daily basis”, she explains on the set of 12/13 info. Nina Métayer entered the profession eighteen years ago. “I had to break down some doors“, she confides. “At the beginning, when I started this job, I tried to masculinize myself. Because women were not necessarily welcome”, says the one who today claims to be “very proud to be a woman in this profession”.
A shared passion
After discovering pastry at 16, Nina Métayer trained at the Ferrandi Institute, before working with Yannick Alléno then Jean-François Piège, with whom she obtained the title of pastry chef of the year in 2016. Celle who had to learn “attention to detail and patience”, a specialist in delicate pastries, also shares her passion with her two daughters Anastasia and Adèle, aged 6 and 3.
