“Kings of Pastry,” the documentary from Chris Hegedus and D A Pennebaker, award-winning filmmakers of The War Room, will air June 21 on PBS. The film captures the excitement and humor behind the competition for the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France, the country’s Nobel Prize for pastry.
The documentary follows 16 chefs, including Jacquy Pfeiffer, co-founder of Chicago’s French Pastry School, deliver their spun-sugar desserts to the display table, creating gravity-defying concoctions and edge-of-your-seat drama in the process.
Watch the trailer at www.pbs.org/pov/kingsofpastry.