Fany Gerson

Fan-Fan Doughnuts & La Newyorkina - Brooklyn, NY

As the country’s most authoritative voice on Mexican sweets, Fany Gerson, has been featured in the New York Times, Food & Wine, Fine Cooking, Saveur Magazine, Fast Company and New York Magazine, among others. She launched the acclaimed La Newyorkina, an artisanal Mexican frozen treats and sweets business in 2010. She is the chef/founder of Fan-Fan Doughnuts an artisan gourmet doughnut shop and Mijo, a Mexican street food concept at the James Beard curated Pier 57 both located in New York.

A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Gerson has worked in a range of fine-dining kitchens around the world including 3 Michelin-starred Akelare in Spain and Eleven Madison Park in New York. She has written three books, My Sweet Mexico—which was nominated for a James Beard Award in 2010 for Best Baking and Pastry Cookbook—Paletas, and Mexican Ice Cream.

She was a mentor in the WE NYC Women’s Leadership Program in 2016, recognized as a Latin woman leader in 2017 by El Diario, and is a graduate of the WEL James Beard Women Leadership program. Fany Gerson graced the cover of Issue 18 of Cherry Bombe Magazine and in 2025 her doughnut shop was a James Beard Award Semi-Finalist for Best Bakery and was awarded the IACP Trailblazer Award.