Philippe Conticini is a French chef and pastry chef born August 16, 1963 in Choisy-le-Roi, Val-de-Marne. Distinguished for both his sweet and savoury efforts, he is considered by his peers and by the media as one of the figureheads of contemporary French and International gastronomy. Having worked in France, in the United States and in Japan, he conceived four innovations which transformed the international world of cookery. He notably invented in the verrines, which display in a vertical and transparent container dishes traditionally served horizontally in plates, in 1994. After receiving several awards and working in Michelin-starred restaurants, he is the confounder and head pastry chef of the P�tisserie des R�ves, a patisserie with outlets in France, Japan and the UK. He is especially concerned with the transmission of emotions through his culinary works and the popularization of such a work on taste. Very active in the media, he intervened in 2012 in the show fr:Le Meilleur p�tissier on French TV Channel M6.