Art Meets Cuisine at Annie Hesselstad's
Annie Hesselstad is the head pastry chef at the world-renowned event and restaurant venue Artipelag in Sweden.
The Artipelag art venue in Sweden is remarkable for many reasons. Guests can visit art exhibitions and enjoy refreshments with a view over Baggensfjärden. All desserts, sweets, and bread are made from scratch, and Annie always connects the desserts she creates to the art events and exhibitions currently on display.
She has worked at the restaurant for the past seven years and has held the permanent position of head pastry chef since 2019, in addition to being responsible for the selection of desserts and cakes at Bådan Café & Pâtisserie on the ground floor of the museum.
Annie came to Iceland last winter at the invitation of the Icelandic national culinary team to teach her craft. She has garnered significant attention for her strong emphasis on the quality and origin of ingredients and her creative methods. She was part of the Swedish national culinary team that competed in the 2016 Culinary Olympics.
In 2022, she was commissioned to design the dessert for the Nobel Prize banquet in Stockholm and was, in fact, undertaking that project for the second time this October. We met with Annie to talk about her work.
