World Class Pastry Talent Selected To Compete In Chicago Restaurant Pastry Competition

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World Class Pastry Talent Selected to Compete in Chicago Restaurant Pastry Competition

Chicago (August 12, 2013) - Four of the world's best pastry chefs will compete in Season Three of the Emmy award-winning Chicago Restaurant Pastry Competition, "International", announced today. The finalists were selected for their creativity and outstanding plated desserts, and were chosen from dozens of submissions made by elite pastry chefs around the world.

"Every year is different," says event organizer and 2013 Top Ten Pastry Chef Jimmy MacMillan, "but this season the challenges include elite competitors from all over the map, bringing all different food cultures and experiences head to head. The bar has been seriously raised."

A new challenge has also been added to the menu: Artisan Gelato Milkshake, which MacMillan describes as "a plated dessert, blended and layered in a glass with tricked-out garnishes." Combined with two existing challenges -- Signature Plated Dessert and Mystery Casting, the chefs will have more to manage than ever in the all-in-one-day event, taking place Sunday, September 15. The competition will be captured on film and released in four episodes on JMPurePastry.com starting with a teaser release in December and one episode each month until April 2014.

The Chef Finalists selected to compete in Season Three are:

Michaela Hapak
Splendido Restaurant
Toronto, Canada

Sander Goosens
Sander Goosens Patisserie
Antwerp, Belgium

Jim Hutchison
Winvian Relais & Chateaux
Morris, Connecticut

Sean Pera
The Umstead Hotel & Spa
Cary, North Carolina

This year's celebrity judges will be superlative Pastry Chef Antoinio Bachour from St. Regis Bal Harbour in Miami, Curtis Duffy from acclaimed new restaurant Grace in Chicago, and avant garde globe-trotter Will Goldfarb representing Ku De Ta in Bali.

Season Three of the competition is made possible with the support of more than ten sponsors including Nielsen-Massey Vanillas, a manufacturer of the finest vanilla products and flavor extracts; Waring Commercial, a manufacturer of professional-quality appliances for the home, foodservice and laboratory industries; Steelite International, a manufacturer and supplier of tabletop ranges for the international hospitality industry; Wholesome Sweeteners, a leading provider of sustainable, environmentally and ethically responsible, great tasting sweeteners; and deZaan Gourmet, a producer of premium chocolate, cocoa powders, cocoa butter, chocolate batons, pralines and many more.

About The Chicago Restaurant Pastry Competition
The Chicago Restaurant Pastry Competition is an Emmy award-winning pastry chef competition that is aired in a series of online videos. The single day competition asks four chef finalists to make eight plates of an original, unique, plated dessert and compete in two mystery challenges. All episodes of The Chicago Restaurant Pastry Competition are filmed at The Chicago School of Mold Making's creative center in Oak Park, IL.

The Chicago Restaurant Pastry Competition has received a number of accolades for its content and film style, including a Chicago Midwest Emmy, Telly Award, two Communicator Awards and two Hermes Awards. The videos were nominated for a 2013 James Beard Media Award. The video series has received over 30,000 views worldwide.

JMPurePastry, the Executive Producers of the series, are a Chicago based pastry solutions group specializing in high quality, well designed products for the restaurant, baking and hospitality industry.

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