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On those few whose creativity, fortitude, technique and concoctions—from cream-puff whimsies to towering sculptures of spun and pulled sugar—are deemed worthy, the judges bestow the ultimate accolade for a pâtissier : the title of MOF craftsman of France and the right to wear a distinctive tricolor collar.

Hollow Points and Cream Puffs Nancy deWolf Smith 2011

On those few whose creativity, fortitude, technique and concoctions—from cream-puff whimsies to towering sculptures of spun and pulled sugar—are deemed worthy, the judges bestow the ultimate accolade for a pâtissier : the title of MOF craftsman of France and the right to wear a distinctive tricolor collar.

Hollow Points and Cream Puffs Nancy deWolf Smith 2011

But talk to any of these accomplished patissiers -- and I have talked to dozens in the last year and a half for a film and book on the "MOF" -- and you will see that what Gaston Lenotre did reached well beyond reformulating recipes, renewing respect for the best ingredients, raising training standards for the profession, or expanding the appetite for fine pastry beyond France.

Flora Lazar: Gaston Lenotre, "God of Desserts," Dies at 88 2010

But talk to any of these accomplished patissiers -- and I have talked to dozens in the last year and a half for a film and book on the "MOF" -- and you will see that what Gaston Lenotre did reached well beyond reformulating recipes, renewing respect for the best ingredients, raising training standards for the profession, or expanding the appetite for fine pastry beyond France.

Flora Lazar: Gaston Lenotre, "God of Desserts," Dies at 88 2009

The Meilleurs Ouvriers de France (aka the MOF, to those of us who took German in high school) is a competition held every 3-4 years, designed to single out the best craftsmen — and they are usually men — in France, across a number of trades.

Kristin McCracken: How Sweet It Is: Kings of Pastry 2010

The Meilleurs Ouvriers de France (aka the MOF, to those of us who took German in high school) is a competition held every 3-4 years, designed to single out the best craftsmen — and they are usually men — in France, across a number of trades.

Kristin McCracken: How Sweet It Is: Kings of Pastry 2010

The mandarins of the MOF are the onetime builders of Japan Inc. and makers of the Asian economic miracle.

Mighty Fall 2008

Internationally renowned for their "fly-on-the-wall" films about exceptional artists, politicians, and businesspeople, the celebrated duo began camping out in Chicago during the dead of last summer to follow Pfeiffer's preparation for the so-called MOF - quite a distance in time and temperature from the outpost they set up in New Hampshire for their Academy Award-nominated film, The War Room, following an obscure Arkansas governor in his quest for the presidency.

Flora Lazar: What Do Bob Dylan, Bill Clinton, and French Cream Puffs Have in Common? 2008

I am weary about calling MOF / BOJ intervention in the JPY.

Alpha.Sources blog CV 2009

Then in 2004, a U-M team that included Matzger reported development of a material known as MOF-177 that set a new record.

Science Blog - Science news straight from the source 2009