Descending from a long line of bakers (his great grandfather and grandfather) and daughter of a baker-pastry chef-chocolate maker, Christine Ferber is immersed in what she calls a family passion from an early age. From her grandmother, who maintained a large orchard, she got the love and know-how of harvesting the fruits, the special care that is taken and their transformation into an inimitable jam. In her infancy, she takes pleasure, from the age of six, to spend every Sunday helping her father, assisting him in the preparation of various and delicious cakes, unlike her sister who, like most children prefer to provide a welcoming welcome to customers. Leaving the counter in favor of the stove, it was probably there, at the back of her father's kitchen, that she acquired the essential bases of the fine and precious work of chocolate. But beyond the cooking of her father, her grandmother's orchard or her family's ancestral profession, it was also and above all in her native Alsace that she learned to appreciate and share the taste for good confectionery. More than a religious celebration, the Alsatian Christmas takes on, before his eyes of amazed child, the air of a great convivial party where we prepare all kinds of specialties each more succulent than the other: petits fours, small shortbread, stollens , berawekas… Perfectly combining her gift for confectionery and her great academic talent for foreign languages, she easily visualizes herself as a sort of traveling pastry chef. Now determined as to her choice of vocation and career, she undertakes to give herself the means to realize her dreams. For this, she joined, in the 1970s, a training school specializing in the catering trade (CERIA) and located in Brussels because, she explains, "in France, at that time, we only took no girl in the pastry business ”. Quite a discreet way of saying that the domain was very sexist at the time and that no great chef agreed to form it. At the end of her studies in this Belgian establishment, she obtained a journeyman pastry chef, confectioner and chocolate maker certificate. She then returned to France and participated in the national competition for young pastry chefs, whose cup she won. She then packed up, towards Paris where she worked for a year at the famous house Peltier (Rue de Sèvres). In 1980, she returned to her native Alsace where she took over the family business, expanding her area of ​​expertise by transforming it into a bakery and pastry shop and chocolate factory. Made only for Sundays or holidays in his father's time, pastries and chocolates become a pleasure cooked and sold every day. His commitment and his investment, within the store did not prevent him from carrying out very successful studies in parallel, crowned, in 1987, by a master's degree in pastry-confectioner and obtaining, the following year, the Marianne title for the best kougelhopf (an Alsatian specialty). Although the manufacture of jams represents only a quarter of the production of the business, they are the very basis of the celebrity of the pastry chef and at the origin of his world nickname, the Fairy of jams. Christine Ferber is making it for the first time out of a basket of sour cherries! Intended, initially, for decoration, the jars with magic mixes will end up, at the insistent demand of the customers, by selling until the last. In the mid-90s, a journalist from Le Figaro, on vacation in the Alsace region, tasted and fell in love with the confectioner's jams. The effect is such that she writes an article which, once published, gives Ferber access to recognition and immediate national success. In 1997, she published her first book (which will be reissued in 2004), "My jams, 150 recipes". The following year, she was elected Pastry Chef of the year and chained cookbooks (ten) such as "Mischievous stories and gourmet recipes" whose editions are quickly sold out. Christine Ferber, the Alsatian fairy of jams, has today acquired international celebrity (Spain, Germany, Holland ...) and especially Japanese, the country where she is a star. Deeply attached to her origins, her family and her dear Alsace (whom she never decided to leave), Ferber ranks her mother's table at the top of her list of favorite restaurants and declares that she wishes, if she could , to reincarnate into a tree, and more precisely into “an oak which shelters, protects, listens and tells”. In 2013, Christine Ferber knows a real buzz when Brad Pitt reveals in an American magazine his obsession for the jams of the Alsatian fairy . Your VTC driver Jimmy Roellinger accompanies you according to your request and your needs. The service can be carried out on board a sedan of 1 to 3 person any comfort and van 7 to 8 people for the groups or the large families, several vehicles can be available.