The Untrained Master of Puff Pastry

Puff pastry was supposedly created by French painter and apprentice cook, Claude Jelle in about 1645. He accidentally created a laminated dough when trying to make a form of rolled butter cake for a sick father. The patient took at seeing him make this preparation and told him not to bake the loaf. So he was on printers. This is why I say there's something to be learned from home cooks. Oh, and he was getting shouted down by his master.