The Puratos Group provides innovative ingredients and tailor made solutions to the bakery, patisserie & chocolate sectors. The expertise we have in these three businesses guarantees you truly integrated solutions, covering all quality aspects you are looking for.
House of Silvanas was born out of Mary Ann Sagarbarria's love of baking. When Mary Ann tied the knot with Cholong Sagarbarria in 1971 her mother-in-law Trinidad Teves-Sagarbarria, who owned Sans Rival, a popular bakeshop in the province of Dumaguete City, shared with her several pastry recipes. She learned, among others, how to make sans rival.
I'm Helen, a French expatriate living in Charleston, SC with my Irish-American husband.
At 24 years old, I became the executive pastry chef of a French restaurant where I stayed for 6 years.
I started writing Tartelette (my nickname in my family) at the same time I was leaving the restaurant, unsure of what to do next, knowing it would be with food, writing about pastry, styling food, enjoying food.
