Dylan Bachelet (born 2004) is a British

pastry chef A pastry chef or pâtissier (; feminine pâtissière, ) is a station chef in a professional kitchen, skilled in the making of pastries, desserts, breads and other baked goods. They are employed in large hotels, bistros, restaurants, bakeries, b ...

and

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Early life and education

Bachelet grew up in

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. His mother is

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descent, and his father is

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–Belgian. Bachelet attended

Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School (SHFGS) is an 11–18 mixed sex, grammar school and sixth form with academy status in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England. It is named after Sir Henry Floyd, a former Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire. As a s ...

. He achieved four A*s at

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and started a degree in

biomedical engineering Biomedical engineering (BME) or medical engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare applications (e.g., diagnostic or therapeutic purposes). BME also integrates the logica ...

before dropping out to pursue a culinary career. Bachelet trained at Raymond Blanc's two Michelin-starred Le Manoir in

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Career

Bachelet finished as one of runners-up in the fifteenth series of ''

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'' at age 20 and was thereafter recruited to be a

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at the Michelin-starred Five Fields in

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References

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