A little after 8 p.m., Mr. Obama will make his way to the home of Michael Smith, an interior designer who redid the Oval Office in 2010, and James Costos, an HBO executive, for a dessert reception.
The dinner is being prepared by White House Executive Chef Chris Comerford, with dessert from Executive Pastry Chef Bill Yosses.
Humbert Gatti, executive chef, created a dessert for children, called the Tricycle Treat, and it is featured on the recently issued menu for children.
The executive pastry chef, Daniel Andreotti, creates desserts like the gold-leaf meringue box, a sugar-based work of art with a treasure trove of pistachio cream and raspberry sorbet inside.
Some argue these executives' pay is the just dessert for their talents and hard work.
All cuisine and desserts prepared by John Lee, executive pastry chef at Capitale.
We also made more ambitious desserts, after consulting Jerry Traunfeld, the executive chef of the Herbfarm Restaurant in Fall City, Wash., which has acres of kitchen gardens.
He is credited as the chef and owner, with PJ Calapa as the executive chef and Robert Truitt in charge of the dessert menu.
Ms. Jones, 59, a former marketing executive at a SoHo design firm, honed her dessert-making skills by taking a bread-baking program at the institute.
"Is this the end?" my dad asked the executive chef, Michael Rotondo, as the third panoply of desserts — criollo cake with merlot jelly and candied vanilla; guava and caramelized white chocolate with pink peppercorn meringue — landed in front of him.
FOR Philippe Conticini, the executive chef at Petrossian in Paris and New York, lavishing salt on desserts was a hurdle passed long ago.
