41.   Brachmann is the pastry chef at Mesa Grill and Bolo in New York, where corn pours out of the kitchens like a Southwestern hail storm.

42.   But brilliant ruby grapefruit is inspiring some pastry chefs.

43.   But fame did not arrive until he became the head pastry chef at Fauchon.

44.   But had I been working as hard as the pastry chef and his staff, there would have been no time to gain weight.

45.   But pastry chefs do change their focus when eating ice cream becomes an indoor sport.

46.   But pastry chefs are being taken more seriously, with their names on the menu and a celebrity quotient of their own.

47.   But right now, my pastry chef, Karen DeMasco, and I are reveling in the seasonal stone fruits like peaches, apricots, nectarines and plums.

48.   But perhaps none more so than Lindsey Shere, the former pastry chef at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif.

49.   But something about ice cream makes even otherwise sane pastry chefs go a little nutty.

50.   But then again, Falkner has a way of one-upping other pastry chefs.