Pastry Chefs Aren’t Disappearing

For the last several years, I’ve noticed a terrifying trend: Major magazines and food publications say that pastry chefs are going extinct. As a pastry chef myself, this is bad news, to say the least. These articles tell us that as margins shrink due to inflation, pastry chefs are out of a job or left searching for more secure jobs in other industries. But when I look around, it doesn’t take me long to find a plethora of people doing incredible work in the pastry space. Pastry chefs are disappearing — but only from the places we’re accustomed to seeing them.