What is Roland Mesnier?
[[File:Roland mesnier 2007.jpg|right|200px]] '''Roland Mesnier''' (July 8, 1944 – August 26, 2022) was a French-born American [[pastry chef]] and culinary writer.<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 28, 2022 |title=Roland Mesnier: Former White House pastry chef dies at 78 |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62708872 |access-date=August 29, 2022}}</ref> He was the [[White House Executive Pastry Chef|Executive Pastry Chef]] from 1979 to 2004 at the [[White House]]. He was born in [[Bonnay, Doubs|Bonnay]], [[German military administration in occupied France during World War II|France]]. Mesnier died on August 26, 2022 in [[Burke, Virginia]] from problems caused by [[cancer]], aged 78.<ref name=mesnierobit>{{cite news|last=Plokhii|first=Olesia|title=Roland Mesnier, White House pastry chef for a sweet quarter-century, dies at 78|work=The Washington Post|date=August 27, 2022|accessdate=August 27, 2022|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/08/27/roland-mesnier-pastry-chef-white-house-dead/}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Mesnier, Roland}} [[Category:1944 births]] [[Category:2022 deaths]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States]] [[Category:American chefs]] [[Category:French chefs]] [[Category:Writers from Washington, D.C.]] [[Category:People from Doubs]] {{US-bio-stub}}