A team of pastry cooks from
Japan Monday won the world patisserie championship organised by
the International Patisserie Federation during Host, an
international conference on professional hospitality under way
at the Fiera di Milano Milan trade fair, organisers said.
Japan was the surprise winner that due to artistic creations
and original mouth-watering designs upset two countries with
long patisserie traditions, namely Italy that placed second and
Austria that was third
In all 13 national teams from four continents fielded 39
pastry cooks in four specialities: chocolates, ice cream, modern
cake and patisserie sculpture.
The Japanese team composed of Tsuda Keisuke, Kenta Nakano
and Hiroyuki Emori turned out three exceptional sculptures
representing artistically the symbols of the land of the Rising
Sun, such as a whale made of sugar and the stages of flight from
birds to the conquest of space, all in chocolate.
The Italians were Antonino Bondì, Diego Mascia and Paul
Occhipinti with an elegant creation based on the evolution of
photography, meaning they won the gold medal in the modern cake
speciality class even though they placed second overall.
Mexico won the chocolate category while Poland was awarded
the 'best Ice Cream' award.
Thirteen international experts made up the jury led by the
captains of the teams in the competition headed by Christian
Beduschi, one of the best Italian patisserie cooks.
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