Interview: Dominique Ansel, the chef behind the cronut

Did you ever think the cronut was going to be so successful? “Nobody could think that something would go that viral. It’s some­thing that people like, it’s something that people understand, it’s something that people want to talk about. More than any­thing, it’s something that people can visual­ise. They understand the concept, they can imagine it and they can taste it before they even see it. When the cronut line first started [outside the New York...