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Article: Just desserts for a backwoods boy-turned master chef.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)(Marshall Faye)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 20, 2008
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Byline: Cathryn J. Prince Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Stowe, Vermont -- By the time he was 12 he could hunt, skin, and butcher dinner for his family. But what Marshall Faye really wanted to do was knead, roll, and bake sweet treats.
"When I told my friends I wanted to be a pastry chef, they told me baking was for girls, and laughed," Mr. Faye recalls with his trademark burly exuberance. "My high school guidance counselor told me to stop joking around."
Cooking and baking weren't considered appropriate for boys of the 1950s, especially sons of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, a wild region so named because once upon a time the ...