Sébastien Gaudard: a legacy of greed

In 1886, in a pastry shop on rue des Martyrs, at 9e arrondissement of Paris, pastry chef Pierre Lacan from Maison Seurre invented the Yule log, an homage to the wooden log offered to guests to warm up Christmas dinners in the Middle Ages. In 2011, pastry chef Sébastien Gaudard replaced the institution with a mission: to perpetuate the tradition and taste of the past.

An ice cream maker, confectioner and chocolate maker, Lorrainer cut his teeth in Paris at the Hôtel de Matignon, the residenc...