Fred Csibi-Levin

Chef Fred is a scientist turned pastry chef and author. Since honing his craft, he has worked as an executive pastry chef at an upscale bakery, consulted for large restaurant groups, bakeries and recently authored his first cookbook Mastering Macarons. He is a chef instructor at Cambridge School of Culinary Arts and teaches in many locations around the country.

Fred’s brand, Doc Macaron, aims at making baking accessible to everyone by understanding the science behind. He offers workshops, customized pastry training, recipe development and creation of digital assets. Fred’s work has been featured by Buzzfeed, Tastemade, the Pastry Arts Magazine, among others; he has competed on the Food Network and his social media channels have amassed over 300K followers.

Fred’s new book Mastering Macarons is now available - it is a truly lovely book that explains the science of making macarons in layman’s terms.