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.. ADDiENDUiM I -- - - --- -- ---------- a me. ar. n~anufacturer • typically u e plastic, steel or other metals 1.0. make their gears. but Andrew Shotts made his fir 1. gears aut of sugar and chocolate. These materials are more familiar 10 Shotts. A a pastry chef. he has worked in the kitchen. of the Russian Tea Room .. La Cote Ba que and the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2. III 2001. he worked with twa colleagues to. create sugar and chocolate geaJ"s in that year's National Pastry Team Championship, Considered the premier event of the pastry world, the annual pastry champion hip requires contestants to. create a chocolate showpiece, a sugar showpiece, cakes, plated desserts. frozen dessert and pelit fours urroundiag a theme. Intemational feam vie for a grand prize of 50,000. While rackjng their brains for 8. vision of how to best illustrate the 2001 competition's Hollywood theme. Ihe chefs an Team Shotts were inspired by 1930s actor Charlie Chaplin and decided to. design an entry to. honor his performance in Ihe movie Modem TImes. Nothing symbolized the message of Modem Times better than a gear, says Shotts. "II had to be a gear because, during (the) Depression, there was so much more an emphasi on the mechanical, rather than On humans," he say . Shotts and hi colleague. Patrice Caillot and Remy Fi.infrock. constructed two. gears. One gear was theteam's sugar howpiece, 'the other was it. chocolate showpiece. "We were depicting an old movie reel with tile sugar howplece," say Shotts. "II' the same ize film, 16 mm. that was 1I ed when the movie was shot The white parts are upposed Ie be film wheels and the entire (annal of lhal. gear is representative of that old over-and-under of !he 1936 movie camera." format The chocolate showpiece looks much like the ugar one, but. there are some subtle differences between them. At the bottom of the chocolate howpiece, for example. are fanlike cutout resembling a shutter. Both creations show gear curving on either side to illustrate the mechanical nature of factory work during the Depression. Since the creators were trained in culinary arts rather than in manufacturing, their planning for the contest was extensive. They spent three months learning about machinery, designing a template and mixing the ingredients. Shotts. Fiinfrock and Caillol began their creative process at the library, researching gears in periodicals and trade journals. Once they became comfortable with the construction of a gear. they tried to devise the howpieces out of cardboard. They aved the cardboard template to a disk and sent it to an engineer in Atlanta. who then cut a mold to tbe exact specifications . Once they had this mold 'back from the engineer, able 10. pour the chocolate bake. into it they were Each showpiece took eight hours to This year, Shotts and his partners are 100 bu y with their day jobs to participate in the National Pastry Team Championship 2002 Contest. ShOHS works in ew York as a corporate pastry chef for Guiuard Chocolate CD. and launches a new line of seasonal! bonbons every three months, Caillot works as executive pastry chef at New York's St. Regis Hotel, pecializing in desserts, and Funfrock explores new desserts in his role as executive pastry chef at Cafe Boulud in New York. Though their gears were probably better ta ting than tho e made in factorie . the creators. opted to throw showpieces afterthe compctition.O out the 52. JUl Y/AUGUST 2002 • GEAR TECHNOLOGY' ,,,,,",w.gur,echflology. com' wWw.powlrlrlflsmlssloll.c·Qm Villtlill cinlma Inlpired !h., creation ,ot III!. Igll.r" which il. meant ID flprliint th impaRl nee of mlehinlF'l' in 18301 Americ!!-" I.llor. Tbll aUf Iii remi. !!ilelat 'at III.rs ggd in In anlique !!!Ovl. C&l!M!rI withl UI_111m' .. T.II ......... MIt You ThiH ... VIIiI (,.. ................... .c..ct ...... 'llDld ....... gil OrCII .... " ... ,,_al_1IIIDsI
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