The Passionate Pastry Chef
b'Natasha Pickowicz represents the new breed of pastry chef--they\\u2019re busy, curious, creative, and political. Natasha oversees the teams at not one, but two acclaimed restaurants in Manhattan: Flora Bar at the Met Breuer museum and Caf\\xe9 Altro Paradiso, where she turns out beautiful desserts and baked goods, from her grey salt sticky buns to her bombolini alla crema. She contributes her work to cool happenings around town, like the Wifey cafe-gallery pop-up in Brooklyn last fall, and she helps organize important food moments, like last year\\u2019s all-star bake sale that benefited Planned Parenthood. The sale is back this year and will take place Sunday, April 8th, at Caf\\xe9 Altro Paradiso, and features yet another amazing roster of talent, including Erin McKenna\\u2019s Bakery, King, La Newyorkina, Mah Ze Dahr, Poppy\\u2019s, Ovenly, Otway, and The Smile. If you\\u2019re going to the sale, go early. Tune in to this episode to hear how Natasha went from English Lit major to one of pastry\\u2019s brightest talents, what her pastry resolutions were, and how to soak your cake layers. You\\u2019ve never done that before? Natasha will walk you through it.\\n\\nThank you to our sponsors for supporting today\\u2019s episode. Emmi, the maker of delicious cheeses from Switzerland; Le Cordon Bleu, the legendary culinary school; and Bob\\u2019s Red Mill, who wants you to eat wisely because you\\u2019re irreplaceable.'