Ruth Kennison

Teaches at The Gourmandise School

Ruth Kennison studied chocolate making at The French Pastry School and The Chocolate Academy, as well under M.O.F. Stephane Treand. She also holds a certificate in professional baking. Her infatuation with chocolate began with her first job in high school at a prominent sweets shop in Boston, where she grew up. Since then, Ruth has followed her dessert passions around the world – taste-tasting vanilla beans in Tahiti, selling homemade madeleines in Sydney, Australia, and most recently, honing her chocolate skills in Asia alongside a former pastry chef from Spain’s El Bulli Restaurant and with chocolate greats in Paris. Ruth just launched her own chocolate line called Bonaparte Chocolate and she insists that all her new concoctions be tested by her husband, David, and son, Sebastian.