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croissant

breakfast of champions

des croissants

They say Marie-Antoinette loved her Austriankipferl and introduced them in the French court...

Kifli, a traditional Hungarian pastry. The left one is salted.

but it wasn’t until the arrival of another Austrian, who invented viennoiserie that the flaky, buttery croissants as we know it came to be, a breakfast essential for millions, not only in France but around the world.

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Pastries
Text © Dana Facaros

Images by Amanda Slater, Hu Totya, SKopp