What Sweets Make Pastry People the Happiest Possible Versions of Themselves?

Pastry people make me happy.

Maybe it's the fact that at culinary events their offerings are usually plated and ready to go, so by the time attendees come in they're at ease and able to mingle. Maybe it's that their life mission (in food, anyway) is to provide a sweet celebratory ending to a meal. Maybe it's our shared appreciation for attention to detail, and order and repetition. Whatever the reason, spending time with and asking pastry people questions makes me particularly happy, whether we're focused on one of their plates or stories for a client or I'm hoofing it at a big event.

And so when clicking around the International Culinary Center's Pastryland Bake Sale for City Harvest, I turned my happiness back on them to ask: "What sweet-eating experience makes you the happiest possible version of yourself?" Their quick videos went up on my Instagram story feed, some industrious folk headed back to work, and the rest us went for wine... because that happens sometimes, too.

I've been pondering and researching and exploring happiness a lot lately, and figure it's never a bad question to ask: "What makes you feel the happiest version of you?"

Whatever it is... go out and get more of it.