Chefs
Why Michael Laiskonis Loves Playing With Chocolate
June 15, 2014
The career of Le Bernardin’s Executive Pastry Chef Michael Laiskonis is a meteoric rise, with all the charm of a small town Midwestern boy who adored Snickers and didn’t like his vegetables touching his meat. Fashioning deceptively minimalist mini chocolate mindscapes and tiny cosmic eggs, today Laiskonis works in almost magnetic resonance with his chef, while listening to his ingredients in almost Zen-like silence.