Rebecca Rather - Culinary Center Instructor

A pastry chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author, native Texan Rebecca Rather has been proprietor of the Rather Sweet Bakery & Café since 1999. Open for breakfast and lunch daily, Rather Sweet has a fiercely loyal cadre of regulars who populate the café's sunlit tables each day. Rebecca is the author of three cookbooks: The Pastry Queen, The Pastry Queen Christmas (winner of an International Association of Culinary Professionals Cookbook Award), and Pastry Queen Parties. She has been featured in Texas Monthly, Gourmet, Ladies' Home Journal, Food & Wine, Southern Living, Saveur, and O, The Oprah Magazine. When she isn't in the bakery or on horseback, Rebecca enjoys the sweet life in Fredericksburg, Texas, where she tends to her beloved backyard garden and menagerie, and eagerly awaits visits from her college-age daughter Frances.