Fedora
About Fedora and Fedora in the Community
Ganzo opens a new space at Fedora to interact with the Florentine community. Fedora is the pastry shop open to the public, operated by the students of the Baking and Pastry Department at Apicius International School of Hospitality, academic member of Palazzi Florence Association for International Education. Located at the Palazzi via Guelfa location along with Apicius School of Food and Wine Studies, the pastry shop is a part of the Apicius campus facilities and is open to the public during daily hours of operation. The selection of products available to the public is decided and prepared by the students under the supervision of the Pastry Faculty.
What’s baking at Fedora?
Fedora features baked goods and pastries, freshly prepared on-site by Apicius students and faculty. Produced items are the delicious results of the Baking and Pastry Department and range from chocolates to breads, unique sugar work and confectionary art, cookies and petit fours, lunch and dinner menu desserts, breakfast and tea time items, mousses, Bavarian mousses, traditional gelato and sorbet as well as cutting edge and contemporary preparations such as gelato with liquid nitrogen.
Student Academic Involvement
The production labs are closely linked to baking and pastry academics and supply the Apicius’ cultural association Ganzo, where culinary students operate the fully serviced restaurant. Pastry students manage the weekly dessert menu of Ganzo’s kitchen. The focus of baking and pastry learning is Italian and international and is applied to both the Fedora shop and the Ganzo restaurant menu. Therefore, in addition to the learned principles of pastry operations, students also dedicate significant time to the art of plating and presentation.
Get involved as a volunteer!
All Palazzi students can get involved at Fedora. Individuals with a passion for the world of baking and pastry and wish to experience it professionally may sign up for volunteer positions. Not only do we proudly feature our academic team of students and faculty from the Baking and Pastry Department but Fedora, like fellow Palazzi In the Community members – F_AIR, FLY, and Ganzo – is a window to the local community in Florence. It is a space where volunteers can open up to the public the cultural mission of Palazzi through gastronomy, by sharing the true flavors of Florence beyond cultural stereotypes.
Operations, Faculty, Facilities
Students learn in a professional environment and are involved in all operations in baking and pastry production – ingredient selection and orders, food cost, European HACCP standards of hygiene control, product packaging, customer service and communications.
The faculty members are professional pastry chefs coming from backgrounds at 5 star hotels, Michelin-starred restaurants, and culinary award winners.
Fedora facilities include classroom/lab spaces for learning and are equipped to offer professionally prepared baked goods and pastries of the highest quality. Facility equipment includes a sheeter machine, mixing machine, static oven, convection oven, flash freezer, refrigerators, freezer, induction burners, ice cream machine, liquid nitrogen prep tools for gelato, sugar lamp, and chocolate machine.
Location
Via Guelfa 116
50129 Firenze Italia
tel +390552658135
fax +39055213114