Elisabeth prueitt biography
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Hello, and welcome back to the podcast! Today inom get to speak with one of my culinary idols, Liz Prueitt
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Elisabeth Prueitt
American pastry chef
Elisabeth “Liz” Prueitt is a pastry chef and along with her husband Chad Robertson, the owner of the San Francisco bakery chain Tartine.[1]
Early life
[edit]Elisabeth Prueitt is a native of Park Slope,[2]Brooklyn. Prueitt first studied acting, then photojournalism, then enrolled in the Culinary Institute of America's (CIA) chef’s training program,[1][2] where she met her future husband and business partner Chad Robertson.[3] She interned and line-cooked at Montrachet, in NYC[2] before graduating from the CIA in 1993.[1] In 1994, Prueitt and Robertson traveled to, and worked through, France, learning from Daniel Collin[4] (in Provence) and Patrick Le Port[5] (in Savoie).[6]
Career
[edit]Prueitt and Chad Robertson,[7] ran the Wood-Fire Baking[8][9] in Point Reyes and Bay Village Breads[8] in M
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I was diagnosed with gluten intolerance in 1987 by a chiropractor in San Francisco. Along with complaining about the cold when it’s 50 degrees, reminiscing about Harbin Hot Springs (at which I once hiked nude, and why I can confidently now say that nude hiking is not my thing), and trading in heels for Birkenstocks—could a more California statement be made?
Prior to my “hippie” diagnosis, I’d made five middle-of-the-night visits to emergency rooms in New York City (I’m from Brooklyn) and Boston, clutching my stomach in agony in the taxi the whole way. Cab drivers never accepted my money because they thought I was dying. I did too.
That was