PastryScoop.com is an outreach program founded by The French Culinary Institute that is charged with “supporting the increasing importance of pastry arts and pastry chefs in American and International cuisine” and to act as a resource to both professionals and non-professionals. PastryScoop.com has a wide range of interesting resources online and hosts a number of offline events including two conferences annually and a regular Supper Club at The French Culinary Institute’s restaurant, l’Ecole.

I was invited to attend the December 2004 Supper Club dinner featuring chocolates from E. Guittard. Overall take: quite delicious and inviting in its relative informality. Good food, good wine, good chocolate, good company.