Autor/-in: Elisabeth Pérotin

Based just outside Paris in the Champagne region of France, Elisabeth Pérotin is a photographer and writer with years of experience capturing Paris through her lens and words. She is the creator of the online magazine frenchglimpses. com, dedicated to French culture, food and travel. She has also collaborated with renowned publishers, such as Quérido, and her photographs have been featured in Le Figaro. Elisabeth's work is fuelled by a lifelong passion for French history and the art of traditional pastry. For this book, she not only selected the recipes and wrote the text, but also captured the soul of Paris through her photographs and created each of the hand-painted watercolour illustrations. Her baking expertise is based on years of practice and training: she completed several internships with the renowned French pastry chef Cyril Lignac at his Cuisine Attitude school in Paris, specialising in choux pastry and macarons. She also honed her skills with the pastry chefs at Les Crayères, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Reims.