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means A sweet or savory baked food made from a stiff dough of flour, fat, and water, ranging from flaky croissants to pie crusts and filled tarts.
from From Old French 'pastaierie', built on 'paste' — dough or paste — which traces back to Late Latin 'pasta', meaning a paste or dough of barley meal. That same root quietly fattened into the Italian 'pasta' you twirl at dinner, so the croissant and the spaghetti are distant cousins, both descended from a humble lump of moistened flour.
- layer count
- true puff pastry holds 729 distinct butter layers
- royal flop
- the cronut sold out in hours, spawned counterfeit lines
- physics
- flakiness comes from steam blasting layers apart
- french rigor
- viennoiserie dough gets folded and chilled for days
- ancient roots
- egyptians baked layered pastries thousands of years ago
croissant — french laminated butter pastry with 729 layers, created in austria but perfected in france
baklava — middle eastern phyllo pastry with nuts and honey, dating back to ottoman empire cuisine
danish pastry — sweet pastry originating from denmark, featuring fruit fillings and almond paste
mille-feuille — french pastry made of puff pastry and pastry cream, literally 'thousand leaves'