Cédric Grolet: Interview with a celebrity pastry chef

Cédric Grolet steps into the lobby of the Parisian palace hotel "Le Meurice" and strolls over for the interview. He has worked here as Chief Pâtissier since 2013, although he now runs a number of pastry shops under his own name in several countries. On Instagram , the slim, diminutive Frenchman has over nine million followers. Fans will queue for hours to take a selfie with him or wait patiently in line for the doors of his shops in Paris, London, and Singapore to open. Never before has a pastry chef sparked such adulation and scaled such starry heights as the 38-year-old sugar genius.