French master pastry chef Gaston Lenotre, who built a worldwide empire with his gourmet dessert creations, has died at the age of 88.

NTT DoComo, the Japanese telephony operator has asked the French pastry cooker Pierre Hermé NTT to imagine mobile phones inspired from its sweet foods.

The models have 5 different colours called “macaroon pink”, “apricot orange”, “vanilla”, “blackcurrant blue” and ” chocolate-brown”.

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Recently, I discovered an incredible pastry-shop in Paris, Pierre Hermé, where you can try some interesting flavored macarons, such as caramel with fleur de sel , passion fruit with chocolate or even rose petal cream.

(Macarons are French, meringue-like cookies made with almond flour – sometimes called luxembourgers - while Macaroons are cookies made with coconut)

Pierre Hermé is an artist - an artist of pastry making - and he is known for his innovative recipes. He began his apprenticeship at Gaston Lenôtre at the age of 14, where he discovered his passion for pastry making.