Michelle Polzine
Michelle Polzine is the pastry chef at City of Hope, a completely free, table-service restaurant and café in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco that serves up food and coffee as well as medical and housing support.
Polzine is also an author, and the former owner of the 20th Century Café in San Francisco, California. Polzine opened the 20th Century Café, which focused on her interpretation of Eastern and Central European baked goods, in San Francisco in 2013. She authored the cookbook Baking at the 20th Century Cafe: Iconic European Desserts from Linzer Torte to Honey Cake, which was published in 2020.
Polzine was a semifinalist for the James Beard Foundation’s Outstanding Pastry Chef award in 2010, 2018, and 2019.
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