(NEWS10) — Today January 30 is recognized as National Croissant Day! The tasty, flaky, buttery treat can be considered culturally iconic when it comes to breakfast foods. Although, how many people ...
The croissant is often treated as the ultimate symbol of French baking, yet its story is far more complicated than that ...
The croissant’s story begins in France, a country celebrated for its culinary traditions. While it may seem like a quintessential French creation, its origins are more complex and diverse. The ...
More than a decade ago, French pastry chef Dominique Ansel unleashed an unstoppable force upon an unsuspecting world: the Cronut, a doughnut-croissant hybrid that drew blocks-long lines to his ...
The crookie is a mashup of the croissant and the all-American chocolate chip cookie (Credit: Emily Monaco) The croissant has been reimagined into a host of portmanteau pastries, from the cruffin to ...
One bite of a croissant just pulled from the oven at Michel Lyczak’s bakery in the southern Parisian suburb of Malakoff is bliss: a satisfying crunch and scattering of crumbs, the indulgent mouthfeel ...
International breakfast circles were roiled, as the Times might write, by the news last week that Tesco, the British supermarket chain, had decided to stop selling croissants that are shaped like ...