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Chandler pastry chef: Skill set not a sidelight at local restaurant

Lisa Graf is the pastry chef at the Tipsy Egg in downtown Chandler. She honed her skills in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado before gaining experience in Maui, Portland and Scottsdale.

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Lisa Graf says she was in the right place at the right time to break into the pastry chef business.

That doesn’t mean anyone who works hard enough and long enough at a specialty couldn’t become a chef in a niche.

“Growing up in Santa Fe, it was a good food-saturated city, with a lot of fine dining,” Graf said. “But I feel if you create your focus, like butchery or sushi or pastry, and really hone in on one thing, and want to be just that, if you hone in on it, you can break into it.”

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