Skip to content

Top Navigation

Food & Wine Food & Wine
  • Recipes & Cooking
  • Drinks
  • Travel
  • Holidays & Events
  • News
  • F&W Classic
  • Video
  • Kitchen & Home
  • F&W Pro

Profile Menu

Your Profile

Your Profile

  • Join Now
  • Newsletters
  • Manage Your Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Give a Gift Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Wine Club
  • Podcast
  • Logout
Login
Subscribe Subscribe
Pin FB

Explore Food & Wine

Food & Wine Food & Wine
  • Explore

    Explore

    • F&W Cooks

      Food and Wine presents a new network of food pros delivering the most cookable recipes and delicious ideas online. Read More Next
    • Our 22 Best Crock Pot and Slow-Cooker Recipes

      Looking to amp up your beef stew but unsure where to start? A slow cooker can can take your comfort food to the next level. Read More Next
    • 50 Affordable Wines You Can Always Trust

      We’ve assembled a list of 50 of the world’s most reliable, inexpensive wines – bottles that offer amazing quality for their price year in and year out. Read More Next
  • Recipes & Cooking

    Recipes & Cooking

    See All Recipes & Cooking
    • Chicken Recipes
    • Comfort Food Recipes
    • Breakfast & Brunch Recipes
    • Salad Recipes
    • Dessert Recipes
    • Vegetable Recipes
    • Pasta & Noodle Recipes
    • Chefs
    • Meat & Poultry Recipes
    • Soup Recipes
    • Appetizer Recipes
    • Side Dishes
    • Fruit Recipes
    • Seafood Recipes
    • Special Diets
    • Cooking Techniques
    • Steal This Trick
  • Drinks

    Drinks

    See All Drinks
    • Wine
    • Cocktails & Spirits
    • Coffee Drinks & Recipes
    • Juices
    • Beer & Brews
    • Champagne & Sparkling Wine
    • Tea Recipes & Ideas
  • Travel

    Travel

    See All Travel
    • Wine Regions
    • Restaurants
  • Holidays & Events

    Holidays & Events

    See All Holidays & Events
    • Valentine's Day
    • Halloween
    • Passover
    • Hanukkah
    • Christmas
    • Gifts
    • Super Bowl
    • Easter
    • Thanksgiving
    • New Year's Eve
    • Holiday Entertaining
  • News
  • F&W Classic
  • Video
  • Kitchen & Home
  • F&W Pro

Profile Menu

Subscribe this link opens in a new tab
Your Profile

Your Profile

  • Join Now
  • Newsletters
  • Manage Your Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Give a Gift Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Wine Club
  • Podcast
  • Logout
Login
Sweepstakes

Follow Us

  1. Home Chevron Right
  2. Kitchen & Home Chevron Right
  3. Treasured: Pastry Chef Angela Pinkerton's Secret Weapons

Treasured: Pastry Chef Angela Pinkerton's Secret Weapons

By Food & Wine
Updated June 16, 2016
Skip gallery slides
Save FB Tweet
Credit: Photo © Melanie Dunea/CPi/My Last Supper
My Last Supper photographer Melanie Dunea peeks into the minds of working chefs and uncovers their most prized possessions.
Start Slideshow

1 of 5

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Interview and Photos by Melanie Dunea / CPi / My Last Supper

Credit: Photo © Melanie Dunea/CPi/My Last Supper

Angela Pinkerton, Pastry Chef at Eleven Madison Park: "My staff, all 15 of them, are my most treasured items. Without them none of this would be possible. They're my little workhorses. They deserve some credit and I thought this was the chance to thank them for that."

  • Food & Wine Featured Contributor: Melanie Dunea

1 of 5

Advertisement
Advertisement

2 of 5

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Credit: Photo © Melanie Dunea/CPi/My Last Supper

"Part of our mentality in this team is to finish strong, whether you're here in the morning or evening, or however long your hours are. If someone comes in for dessert in the morning or if they are the last seat at the table that day, it still needs to look just as beautiful. You always want to be on top of your game and finish strong."

  • Treasured: All-Star Plating Tips from Anita Lo

2 of 5

3 of 5

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Credit: Photo © Melanie Dunea/CPi/My Last Supper

"There are a lot of women who have gone into pastry in general. As pastry cooks I see a lot of women, but as pastry chefs, I see more men. I could be wrong about that, but in fine dining there are definitely a lot more men than women. Here at Eleven Madison Park, we usually go 50/50, but right now it's roughly three men to 10 women."

  • Treasured: Marc Forgione's Sacred Shelf

3 of 5

Advertisement

4 of 5

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Credit: Photo © Melanie Dunea/CPi/My Last Supper

"That's what we do here at EMP with our dishes: We play on history and aim to use products that were made in New York. It's kind of our identity. The baked Alaska is the latest addition to our menu. We flambé it tableside, which is pretty fun. The baked Alaska was coined at Delmonico's in celebration of the purchasing of Alaska, so it's kind of a historical dessert. It's also a big part of New York."

  • Treasured: Kurt Gutenbrunner’s Schnitzel Hammer

4 of 5

5 of 5

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Credit: Photo © Melanie Dunea/CPi/My Last Supper

"When it's time to work, it's time to work and I'm very serious about that."

  • Treasured: Seamus Mullen's Spanish Iron

5 of 5

Replay gallery

Share the Gallery

Pinterest Facebook

Up Next

By Food & Wine

Share the Gallery

Pinterest Facebook
Trending Videos
Advertisement
Skip slide summaries

Everything in This Slideshow

Advertisement

View All

1 of 5 Interview and Photos by Melanie Dunea / CPi / My Last Supper
2 of 5
3 of 5
4 of 5
5 of 5

Share options

Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Login

Food & Wine

Magazines & More

Learn More

  • Subscribe this link opens in a new tab
  • Books from Food & Wine
  • Contact Us
  • Media Kit
  • Content Licensing

Connect

Follow Us
Subscribe to Our Newsletter
Other Meredith Sites

Other Meredith Sites

  • 4 Your Health this link opens in a new tab
  • Allrecipes this link opens in a new tab
  • All People Quilt this link opens in a new tab
  • Better Homes & Gardens this link opens in a new tab
  • Bizrate Insights this link opens in a new tab
  • Bizrate Surveys this link opens in a new tab
  • Cooking Light this link opens in a new tab
  • Daily Paws this link opens in a new tab
  • EatingWell this link opens in a new tab
  • Eat This, Not That this link opens in a new tab
  • Entertainment Weekly this link opens in a new tab
  • Health this link opens in a new tab
  • Hello Giggles this link opens in a new tab
  • Instyle this link opens in a new tab
  • Martha Stewart this link opens in a new tab
  • Midwest Living this link opens in a new tab
  • More this link opens in a new tab
  • MyRecipes this link opens in a new tab
  • MyWedding this link opens in a new tab
  • My Food and Family this link opens in a new tab
  • MyLife this link opens in a new tab
  • Parenting this link opens in a new tab
  • Parents this link opens in a new tab
  • People this link opens in a new tab
  • People en EspaƱol this link opens in a new tab
  • Rachael Ray Magazine this link opens in a new tab
  • Real Simple this link opens in a new tab
  • Ser Padres this link opens in a new tab
  • Shape this link opens in a new tab
  • Siempre Mujer this link opens in a new tab
  • Southern Living this link opens in a new tab
  • SwearBy this link opens in a new tab
  • Travel & Leisure this link opens in a new tab
Food & Wine is part of the Meredith Corporation Allrecipes Food Group. © Copyright 2021 Meredith Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policythis link opens in a new tab Terms of Servicethis link opens in a new tab Ad Choicesthis link opens in a new tab California Do Not Sellthis link opens a modal window Web Accessibilitythis link opens in a new tab
© Copyright . All rights reserved. Printed from https://www.foodandwine.com

View image

Treasured: Pastry Chef Angela Pinkerton's Secret Weapons
this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines.