A Fine Arts graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology and an alumnus of Paris’ La Varenne culinary school, Gand is a pastry chef with plenty of tricks and treats up her sleeve. Her impeccable talent in whipping up sumptuous delights made her an unstoppable gastronomic force that is conquering one culinary sphere to another.
Gand is the host of Food Networks’ Sweet Dreams and executive pastry chef and co-owner of the multi-awarded Tru, a high-end fine-dining restaurant under the Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises. She, along with her equally talented partners at Tru, garnered the James Beard Award for Service in 2007. Just recently, she became a regular blogger of the Huffington Post, contestant of the Iron Chef America, judge of Top Chef and was featured in the television program, Great Chefs. With these given, it is definitely accurate to say that Gand is living one heck of a sweet life.