Oct 25, 2013

Bravo’s “Top Chef Just Desserts” Winner Chris Hanmer Headlines Dallas Cooking Demos

Dallas Market Center today announced that Chris Hanmer, a rising star in the pasty industry and winner of Bravo’s “Top Chef Just Desserts”, will present a cooking demonstration on Saturday, Jan. 18 at noon on The Culinary Stage during the Dallas Total Housewares & Gourmet Market, Jan. 15-21.

Chris Hanmer’s culinary career has steadily progressed from peeling potatoes at a country club at the age of 15 to claiming a gold medal as the youngest-ever American chef to win a World Pastry Team Championship. In 2006, he became the executive pastry chef for the Ritz-Carlton Lake Las Vegas, and in 2010 opened The School of Pastry Design in Las Vegas.

In 2011, Chris took home the winning title on Bravo’s “Top Chef Just Desserts.” Most recently, he opened CH Patisserie, a new pastry shop in Sioux Falls, S.D. His spectacular sugar sculptures and chocolate showpieces have graced the pages of major global food magazines and appeared on the Food Network.

Dallas Total Housewares & Gourmet Market, held in conjunction with the Total Home & Gift Market, features an array of exhibitors, special events, seminars and cooking and product demonstrations. Hanmer’s appearance is the centerpiece of a full schedule of demonstrations and events on The Culinary Stage celebrating the wide array of gourmet and housewares products available at Market.

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About Dallas Market Center

Founded in 1957, Dallas Market Center is the world’s most complete wholesale marketplace. Within its marketplace of more than five million square feet, retailers from around the globe source products ranging from home furnishings, gifts, decorative accessories and lighting to textiles, fashion accessories and men’s, western, women’s and children’s apparel. With more than 50 markets each year attended by more than 200,000 retail buyers from all 50 states and 85 countries, Dallas Market Center offers hundreds of events and seminars geared toward helping retailers expand business and increase profits. As a result, more than $8 billion in estimated wholesale transactions are conducted annually within the Dallas Market Center complex. The Dallas Market Center website is available at dallasmarketcenter.com.