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Location: Surrey BC
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Sweet Thea is a contemporary Wedding Cake designer, passionate about the creative art of European desserts and pastries. A European trained pastry chef & chocolatier, Thea (pronounced Tay-ah) has been creating dream cakes and delicious hand-made chocolates for over 15 years. Currently Pastry Chef at Vancouver’s most prestigious private Club, Thea previously held the same position at the world-ren… Read moreSweet Thea is a contemporary Wedding Cake designer, passionate about the creative art of European desserts and pastries.
A European trained pastry chef & chocolatier, Thea (pronounced Tay-ah) has been creating dream cakes and delicious hand-made chocolates for over 15 years. Currently Pastry Chef at Vancouver’s most prestigious private Club, Thea previously held the same position at the world-renowned Sooke Harbor House, regarded as one of the top 10 restaurants in the world, and highly-acclaimed for its exclusive use of locally harvested raw foods.
Thea is passionate about the art of fine pastry, and is assisted in the day-to-day operations of the Sweet Thea bakery by her adoring partner Laurie.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
I am not a gardener, but still found this book to be quite useful. I bought it when I worked at Sooke Harbor House, one of the world's top hotels with a gourmet kitchen that focuses on using only seasonal local and natural ingredients. This book is an excellent resource, stuffed with specific information about vegetables, herbs, fruit and edible flowers. I found it very handy to know when I can get fruit from a plant twice in a year, what parts of some plants are edible, what seasons things were available, and how weather would affect the flavor and usability of upcoming crops. There is a lot more detail in the book that i have never used: managing plant beds, crop… Read more
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Working long hours in a kitchen can be hard on my system; sometimes I seem to have no time to exercise , constantly eating things that make me feel unwell, or guilty; inevitably this leads to one of my 'health kicks' - I exercise steadily and paying strict attention to my diet. When Bob Green became famous as Oprah Winfrey's trainer and exercise physiologist, I picked up a cheap used copy of this book on Amazon. As both a food book or a self-help book it doesn't offer anything particularly new or interesting - "Eat sensibly and exercise" is his message. Gee, really? It is a simple book, with simple recipes and basic food wisdom. It didn't really teach me anything,… Read more
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One of those classic Christmas moments we have all had - "Gee, thanks!" I had tried to smile brightly when I was given this cookbook for a present. Given in the spirit of the holiday, and I was obviously expected to be delighted to have received such a thoughtful gift. Sting and his wife Trudie, both born and raised in the city, had become gentleman farmers, moving to the Lake House manor with its sixty-acre organic farm, and were rhapsodic about their new connection with the earth. I can just imagine Sting, coming home from a 50 city tour with his easy listening jazz band, putting on the overalls and going out to pull weeds... right. Ok, so I am a pessimist about all that,… Read more
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