Innovation With Dominique Ansel

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Society & Culture, Arts, Food

4.8 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Dave and Chris muse about how there is seriously great food across the United States, and it's not just concentrated in the major cities. They are then joined by pastry chef Dominique Ansel, who discusses his philosophy around asking questions in pursuit of innovation and creativity. He, Dave, and Chris also compare and contrast Asian and French cuisines and examine Dominique's process of trying to properly fuse the two. Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris Ying Guest: Dominique Ansel Video/Audio Producer: Felipe Guilhermino Majordomo Media Producers: Kelsey Rearden and David Meyer Editor: Stefano Sanchez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We have one of the great pastry chef chefs.
0:04.2	I mean, I feel so uncomfortable talking about the category of a chef versus a pastry chef.
0:08.8	I hate it.
0:09.4	It's just like, he's a fucking chef.
0:10.9	And he's one of the very best to do it.
0:12.3	And his name's Dominique Ansel.
0:14.2	A Frenchie that found his voice in New York City working for Danielle Blud, then opened up his own bakery, patisserie,
0:22.3	and I would say safe to say, change the game,
0:25.5	won every award possible.
0:27.1	And it's currently about to launch a new French-Asian bakery
0:32.0	that I'm sure is going to be extremely delicious,
0:34.6	and I hope might ruffle some feathers in a positive way.
0:38.6	So you can't gay keep, you gay keepers.
0:44.2	It's not authentic.
0:46.7	You can't do that.
0:49.0	Why?
0:51.7	But before we get that, we're going to do a couple of musings,
0:55.5	and then we're going to do sort of a quick dads
0:58.9	before we get in with Dominic.
1:00.8	That's probably going to show you how terrible
1:03.6	both Chris and I are fathers.
1:09.5	Welcome to Dave Chang Show,
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