Pierre Herme, dubbed the Picasso of Pastry by Vogue magazine, is a fourth-generation pastry chef. Raised in Alsace, he apprenticed to the legendary Gaston Lenotre when he was just fourteen and at twenty-four took over the famed pastry kitchens of Fauchon in Paris. It was at Fauchon that his extraordinary dessert repertoire began gaining worldwide attention. In 1997 he was decorated as a Chevalier of Arts and Letters and named France's Pastry Chef of the Year. He has pastry shops in Paris and Tokyo and is the author of four books, including the Larousse of Desserts. Desserts by Pierre Herme, his collaboration with Dorie Greenspan, won the International Association of Culinary Professionals' Book of the Year Award.

Dorie Greenspan is the author of cookbooks, including Baking with Julia, the award-winning, bestselling companion volume to Julia Child's PBS television series. She is a columnist for Bon Appetit, and her articles and recipes have appeared in the New York Times, Food & Wine, and other national publications. She divides her time between New York City and Paris.