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How Nina Metayer became the world's best pastry chef

January 22, 2025

Nina Metayer originally wanted to become a baker, but the job proved physically demanding for her. Instead, she decided to become a pastry chef — and was named the world's best in 2023 and 2024.

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Delicate, refined and detail-orientated — these are qualities that Nina Metayer said have helped her become the world's top pastry chef. She shares her recipe for her signature chocolate tart and explains how her career took a different path to the one that she had initially planned. 

Find out why she wasn't hired as a baker and how she ended up being a star pastry chef in France.

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Christine Lebert
Christine Lebert German culture and lifestyle reporter and editor