French

A. country where Marie-Antoine Carême raised the pièce montée in 1815, Auguste Escoffier codified the plate at the Savoy in 1903, Pierre Hermé reset the macaron in 1996, and Cédric Grolet sculpted the fruit at Le Meurice. We pulled together every finishing technique worth knowing — eight techniques, deep — from the ateliers, salons, and pass kitchens that keep the plate.

French sits under Decorate in the HowTo Food menu. It has 8 sections: Cake, Cookie, Plate, Table, Party, Holiday, Wedding and Dessert.