Dominique Ansel’s Beloved French Pastry Flour is Now Available Stateside — Here’s Where to Find it
July 21, 2024 | 1 min to read
Dominique Ansel, a James Beard Foundation Award Winner and recognized as the World's Best Pastry Chef, emphasizes the significance of quality flour in baking. His choice is a specific type sourced from the historic French milling company Grands Moulins de Paris, which he imports for his bakeries. With his upcoming cookbook, Life's Sweetest Moments: Simple, Stunning Recipes and Their Heartwarming Stories, Ansel aims to guide fans to recreate his culinary creations authentically.
A baked good is only as enjoyable as the flour it’s baked with. And if anyone can confirm that, it’s James Beard Foundation Award Winner Dominique Ansel, named the World’s Best Pastry Chef by World’s 50 Best.
“Flour is one of the important things when it comes to baking,” Ansel tells Food & Wine. His preferred flour, sourced from century-old French milling company Grands Moulins de Paris (GMP) has been a staple in his kitchen since he was a young cook in France. Ansel imports it Stateside specifically to use at his eponymous bakeries. And as he approaches the publication of his third cookbook this October, Life’s Sweetest Moments: Simple, Stunning Recipes and Their Heartwarming Stories, he wanted to actually help his fans recreate his recipes in the way they’re meant to be baked and eaten.
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