As Rachel Yang and her husband, Seif Chirchi, clawed their way out of the 2020 restaurant shutdown, she started making desserts again. Things were still too uncertain for the couple to hire back a proper pastry department in their restaurants, Revel and Joule.
Coming in early mornings brought back memories of when the couple opened Joule in 2007. Yang handled pastry back then, too. It was just her, alone, in the original location on 45th Street, making ginger cake and “joule box” semifreddo desserts.
“It brought me back to the place where it was really nice and peaceful,” she says. Unlike
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