About Judy Mattera

Judy Mattera has worked as pastry chef at some of the Boston area's most prestigious restaurants: The Federalist at XV Beacon, Boston's first boutique hotel, Grill 23 & Bar, and Olives. She has been featured in such magazines as Quarterly Review of Wines, Santé, Pastry & Baking North America, Pastry Art & Design, Chocolatier, Chef and McCall's. Awards include Editor's Choice for Best Dessert in City Search, Best Dessert in Boston Magazine's Reader's Restaurant Poll Award and Top Honors for Dessert in the Zagat Survey. The Boston Globe featured her as one of "The Poets of Pastry" and she has appeared on Boston Cable News "Chef's Corner" and TV's "Chronicle" in a segment entitled "Just Desserts".

An honors graduate of Cambridge School of Culinary Art, she received further training with Chef Ewald Notter at the International School of Confectionery Arts in Gaithersburg, Maryland and has completed "Mastering Wine" at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone in Napa Valley, CA. She is a Certified Sherry Wine Specialist given by The House of Lustau and approved by the Regulatory Council of Jerez-Xérès-Sherry Denomination of Origin.

Judy also holds a certificate on the wines and wine region of Valpolicella with the designation of Valpolicella Explorer.

Judy Mattera of My Sweet Solutions has brought her extensive background in fine pastry-making, coupled with the study of the world's great (and often undiscovered and misunderstood) dessert wines, to locations as varied as The Boston Center for Adult Education, The French Culinary Institute in NYC, and the national conference of Women Chefs and Restaurateurs, not to mention countless private homes and small companies throughout greater Boston.

Judy is a member of Les Dames d'Escoffier International and has served on the Boards of Women Chefs & Restaurateurs and Les Dames, Boston chapter.