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Melbourne pastry chef Kate Reid's journey to creating croissants is considered by some to be the best in the world, saving her from a near-fatal eating disorder.

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00:00We're heading towards Parliament House, so I'm going to be a Knight of the Order of the
00:12Agricultural Medal of France.
00:16Wild.
00:17I've never had a period in my life where I haven't had something to obsess over.
00:23I'm going to be an engineer, a doctor and a Knight by the end of today.
00:29It's like, in order for me to be inspired to get out of bed in the morning, I need something
00:35to latch all of my focus on.
00:39Kate Reid's story is the dream story.
00:42From F1 to pastry, it's radical.
00:48This is people who excel in patisserie.
00:51This is people with aerospace expertise.
00:55This is Kate Reid.
00:56You did not just replicate the croissant, you redefined the croissant.
01:03The croissant was invented in Vienna, celebrated in France, but it might be fair to say that
01:09it was perfected in Melbourne by Kate Reid.
01:11This is the best achievement for a non-French people and being better than some French.
01:18One of the greatest things for me is the need to have control.
01:30There are many examples in my life of me reaching for things healthy or unhealthy to gain an aspect
01:37of control and I think that will probably be my entire life's biggest challenge.
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