Ooh-ooh, new French bakery just opened in the neighborhood---with bakers actually from France---yum!
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CROISSANT - A crescent-shaped roll generally made with páte feuilletée (puff pastry)...The origin of this delicious pastry...is extremely ancient; it dates from the year 1686 and it was first created in Budapest...the Turks were besieging the city. To reach the centre of the town they had dug underground passages. Bakers who worked during the night heard the noise...and gave the alarm. The assailants were repulsed. In order to reward the bakers...they were granted the privilege of making a special pastry which, in memory of the emblem which decorates the Ottoman flag, had to take the form of a crescent...
Larousse Gastronomique © 1961 by Crown Publishers
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