Heir to four generations of Alsatian bakery and pastry-making tradition, Pierre Herme began his career at the age of fourteen as an apprentice to Gaston Lenotre. Famous in France, Japan, and the United States, the man that Vogue called "the Picasso of Pastry" revolutionised pastry-making with regard to taste and modernity. With "pleasure as his only guide," Pierre Herme has invented a totally original world of tastes, sensations, and pleasures.