Learn About Pastry Chef and Chocolatier Zach Townsend
Pastry Chef and Chocolatier Zach Townsend has developed Dallas Chocolate Classes that offers chocolate-centric classes and mobile team events: Chocolate tastings, Truffle making, Chocolate and Wine Pairing Education, Baking classes, and Corporate events in Dallas Forth Worth. 5-start TripAdvisor and Yelp Ratings.
“Chocolate engages all our senses and emotions!”
Hear chocolatier and pastry chef Zach Townsend discuss the history and mission of his company Dallas Chocolate Classes in an up-close interview with BizTV . . .
I created Dallas Chocolate Classes to offer fun and relaxed hands-on private classes and team events to make you more EDUCATED, ENLIGHTENED, and EXCITED about the fascinating world of chocolate. In my classes, I share with you my more than two decades of experience working with chocolate.
Through my classes and group events, you can:
◊ Have a unique and memorable experience for yourself or with friends & family or co-workers.
◊ Understand and enjoy chocolate better
◊ Be the best chocolate lover you can be!
In 1990, I was living in Paris, France where I became good friends with the Jambon family, founders of the European chocolate company Jeff de Bruges. Michel, the father, taught me a great deal about fine chocolate and how to appreciate various styles of chocolate making. After my time learning more about chocolate and pastry from Miyuki Watanabe at La Petite Rose pastry shop in Paris, I became passionate about the craft of working with chocolate and baking. I continued my life-long journey and education in chocolate and pastry when I moved to Dallas where I worked for years independently in chocolate selling retail and wholesale products and providing chocolatier services at high-end weddings and events. I also have formal training from various schools, including The Cordon Bleu in Paris, The French Pastry School in Chicago, and The Chocolate Academy.
In 2006, I started working with James Beard award-winning author Rose Levy Beranbaum and began working on cookbooks for publishers around the world. I began teaching and presenting on chocolate in 2011 to share all my experience and knowledge with you through fun and educational chocolate classes and programs for all ages and levels.
◊ Chocolate dessert served by request to President George Bush and First Lady Laura Bush.
◊ Featured chocolatier at the 10th annual Stephan Pyles Celebrity Chef Dinner by the Wine & Food Foundation of Texas.
◊ Participating dessert chef for the Fort Worth Chefs for Farmers culinary event.
◊ Guest presenter on the topic of baking with fine chocolate at the Dallas Chocolate Festival.
◊ State Fair of Texas dessert judge.
◊ Chocolate desserts featured in D Magazine.
◊ Texas Restaurant Association ProStart Culinary Competition judge.
◊ French to English cookbook translator (Townsend Language Services).
You can find Chef Zach's recipes featured in the IACP Cookbook of the Year Rose's Heavenly Cakes, in The Cookie Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum, and in Flavorful by baking author Tish Boyle.
Chef Zach has been a frequent writer for Dessert Professional Magazine, a selected contributor to the New York Times microblog on the topic of cake, and recipe translator for Wine Enthusiast magazine.
He has contributed to James Beard Award-winning cookbooks.
Zachary R. Townsend is the translator of the English editions of many cookbooks, including the Let’s Eat series (voted top pick by the New York Times Book Review, National Geographic, Real Simple, and the Houston Chronicle), Larousse on Cooking, Pierre Hermé Macaron, and Maison Kayser’s French Pastry Workshop, a semifinalist of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. His recipe translations have also appeared in Wine Enthusiast magazine, and he has provided translation work for Weber Grill author Jamie Purviance for Le Chef Barbeque. For links to purchase a selection of his translated cookbooks, click here.
