"Gale Gand" is a Chicago-based pastry chef, cookbook author, television personality, and winner of the 2001 James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Pastry Chef. Gand was the host of the Food Network show Sweet Dreams. She currently is the pastry chef and partner at Spritzburger in Chicago. She was the Chef-in-Residence at Elawa Farm, in Lake Forest, Illinois. Gand is a partner and was the founding Executive Pastry Chef at Tru (restaurant)/Tru, a contemporary fine-dining restaurant affiliated with Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises. Gand and her partners at Tru won the 2007 James Beard Foundation Award for Service. She has blogged for the Huffington Post, was a contestant on Iron Chef America in the 2006-2007 season, and was a judge on Bravo's Top Chef in 2008 for the episode Wedding Wars. Gand was also featured on the Great Chefs television program.

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Desserts are the finishing touch to a wonderful meal; but it is commonly accepted that desserts are also the menu items that can contain the most added sugar. I believe the key to making delicious desserts a little bit healthier is to make small substitutions that don't affect the overall taste. When I want to reduce sugar in my cooking or baking, I replace it with SPLENDA(R) No Calorie Sweetener.

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I have no sense of how large or small he is. I don't read his annual report or anything before I decide to order from him, and I've never been out to his place.

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