Where Ingenuity Meets Perfectionism
The scrappy overachiever behind some of the city’s most innovative pastries
People assume the chef behind the pastry shop Petit Chou in the East Village “is an Asian woman—or a woman in general,” who’s “got kind of a cutesy little Kauai thing going on.” Or that’s what the employees who work the register have told Queens-born Bassim Nasr. The bald, lumbering Lebanese American thinks it’s funny, and he gets it.
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