Taiwan Bakery Seminar - 2017

Taiwan is the trend setter of Greater China for bakeries.  Bakers are always on the lookout for the next big thing.   Blueberry Mandy worked with Katherine Lee of the USDA-FAS Agricultural Trade Office (ATO) Taipei to implement a seminar on baking trends.

The Presentation:

Chef Action:

Master Chef at work

Local celebrity chef -- loves blueberries!

Master of Ceremonies - Local Food Editor

Attendees from some of the leading bakeries in Taiwan

Katherine from USDA-FAS -- a great booster of blueberries.  Below is her boss, Chris Frederick, also a big blueberry fan!

This is blueberry Mandy.  She had the awesome task of arranging the chef and translating for me which is really difficult as I never follow the script!

Beautiful products use all sorts of blueberries and clever techniques

Chef demo

Super fancy muffins, use frozen blueberries!  This is a big development in Taiwan.

This is a blueberry sandwich using dried blueberries in bun and frozen in a risotto filling.   This was my lunch for entire visit to Taipei!  Yummy

Chef artistry