What Happens When an All-Star Pastry Chef Kicks White Sugar Out of His Kitchen?

For Miro Uskokovic, the Serbian-born pastry chef of Gramercy Tavern in New York, sugar always meant one thing: a pure-white crystal. Then almost two years ago, he was diagnosed with Crohn's, a chronic inflammatory disease that targets the lining of the digestive tract. He started to explore how sugar affected his digestive symptoms, which led him to question what it was doing for his guests.

by Jacqueline Raposo for Saveur