Maurice Chaplais - where baking is still an art

Maurice Chaplais is an internationally renowned artisan bread and bakery consultant, with a unique breadth of experience in bakeries, both large and small. Over the last 25 years, whilst running his own highly acclaimed bakery / delicatessen, the Flour Bag in the U.K. and a bakery of the same name in Florida, and currently Maison Chaplais in Cheltenham, he has perfected a vast data base of his own recipes and methods which he shares and teaches when on assignment as a bakery / bread consultant all over the World, and in Foodworks Cookery School in Cheltenham.

To read reviews on his participation, follow these links:

• Cotswold Life
• Cotswold Preview
• Flavour
• BBC Good Food Magazine
• Cotswold Style
• Cotswold Essence

Whether you are in the U.K. or anywhere else in the World, Maurice can, as a "hands on" bakery consultant and bread consultant, enable you to start your own bakery / cafe /delicatessen by teaching you and your staff his recipes and methods which will ensure that you have no competition wherever he operates. If you are already established, his bakery consultancy can improve and build on what you already have.

Maurice is constantly developing and researching new ideas to recreate the methods of 100 years ago whilst using modern equipment to attain this end. He relies on Poolishes, preferments, and, above all, his homemade culture, which is made with the wild yeasts found on Indian Alphonso mangoes. This culture is now operating successfully in many countries around the World where Maurice has worked, producing products of unparalleled quality, flavour, textures and shelf life. He has virtually given up using commercial yeasts, except in a very few products, and then only in the smallest of quantities. Most of the products he now produces take between 1 and 3 days to create, using very slow fermentation, and retarding as much as possible to improve flavour and texture.

Bread Consultancy

As a bread consultant, Maurice provides a unique world-wide, on site service of bread consulting and bakery consultant skills. These include advice on equipment; the use of Maurice's recipe repertoire perfected over the last 25 years and constantly evolving; the complete training of the staff to enable them to recreate Maurice's renowned products and techniques; bespoke product development.

He has successfully worked in Bahrain, Mexico, India, Trinidad and Tobago, The Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Malta, Sri Lanka, U.S.A. and of course the U.K.

So, if you have a passion for bread and baking, and wish to set up an artisan bakery producing only the highest quality products with the best available ingredients, no matter where in the world that you live, as a bakery consultant and bread consultant, Maurice can enable you you to create your dream. Because of his unique talents, you can be sure that wherever Maurice works, competition will never be of the slightest concern.

Where baking is still an art

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