You can get the required training to become a pasty chef at most cooking schools. It usually take a year or two of hard practice.
Yes you can because pastry chef and chef are both the art of cooking.
No you cannot call you're self a pastry chef without a degree because you are going to have some experience to become one.
It depends on where you are at, but there are different pastry chef schools that you can attend. Such as: www.sfbi.com, www.reluctantgourmet.com/baking_pastry_chef_schools.htm or even www.frenchpastryschool.com.
You can never know. It depends on how fast you learn. What you can do is take lessons, and practice, practice, practice. Im sure you can find pastry lessons.
A baker or a pastry chef.
yes you have to be able to measure
yes there can be staff for a pastry chef
practice
There is a Culinary school in Portland, OR that you can go to to become a pastry chef. If you feel you have the talent, desire, and the fortitude....begin by apprenticing yourself to one of the top hotel pastry chefs in the USA or Europe. It will NOT be easy.
"A Day in the Life of a Pastry Chef" is an excellent and very informative website on pastry chefs. Culimary school and an on the job apprenticeship are needed to become a pastry chef. http://www.hcareers.com/us/resourcecenter/tabid/306/articleid/288/default.aspx
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