Local pastry chef Lisa Clark recalls the exact moment when he learned he was chosen to compete in his first Network of food show.
“I was driving when the producers called me and I had to throw -to me because I was so excited,” was the executive pastry chef and the professional cake designer at Peppers artistic events In Northborough he told Masslive.
“I never thought I would reach this point,” Clark said. “Although I have done everything, it seems that I did not do it, you know what I mean? It is crazy. But now that we can see -I think it will sink more about what I did.”
Clark is between 13 contestants In season 11 of Food Network’s success series, “Spring Forn Championship”.
The Baker will head himself against some of the best pastry chefs in the country for a shot at $ 25,000, a feature in Food Network magazine and spring cooking champion title.
Clark officially announced that he will appear in the program in a Publication of Instagram On February 25, describing the opportunity as a full circle time.
“As I can remember that I have always had a passion for cooking,” Clark wrote in the post. “Creating seeing the food network was so inspiring. Dreaming that one day I would be on the big screen in the oven. My career has taken me on many paths. As a child, I would never have imagined competing in the same channel as my idols. “
A native of Redmond, Washington, Clark told Masslive that “he began to bake as soon as he could be.”
He learned the ropes of helping his mother bake before graduating in a barbie oven oven and finally a real oven.
After graduating from high school, Clark went to California’s fashion school. But his heart was still cooking.
So Clark returned to Pastry School and enrolled in Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Portland, Oregon.
He then worked as a pastry chef at a farm restaurant at the table for several years. Later, Clark moved to Massachusetts with her husband and finally gave birth to her daughter, who will be four years in May.
Clark also continues his eleventh year as an executive pastry chef in Peppers Artful Events. Clark Recognitions include the best celebration of the National Ia Catie Awards in 2019, as well as the best dessert in both the fork and the Nashoba competitions.
Despite being a decorated baker, Clark said he felt “incredibly nervous” during his time at the Spring Baked Championship, adding that “the anxiety of letting my loved ones be loved and myself always present.”
However, Clark’s strategy to shake these nerves was to keep and organize, and do something at the same time, especially when he entered the kitchen.
Clark also pushed his limits, as he felt more comfortable in the kitchen and the challenges of the show were more unexpected. This allowed him to especially show his stunning skills decorated by cakes.
The contestant Lisa Clark, a cooking process, as seen in the Spring Baking Championship in season 11.Rob Prryce/Food Network
“It was certainly an opportunity because you are in the kitchen and you do not have everything you like, in yourself, here in Peppers, do you know?”, Clark explained. “Each copper, also changed what was in the kitchen. Therefore, certain fondants, cookie cutters or certain materials that would not necessarily offer the next cooking. You had to constantly do new things and be constantly creative in the things they are given. ”
Now that he is at the point where you can sit and look, along with the rest of the world, Clark said he is “proud of how far I have come and how much I have grown up during this trip.”
The pastry chef hopes that his appearance at the “Spring Baking Championship” will give Peppers more artistic events and will help Clark to open his own showcase in the future.
The new Spring Baking Championship season opens at 8 pm on Monday, March 10 at Food Network. Episodes will be available to convey Maximum The same day and time they are transmitted.