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viennoiserie
flaky buttery pastries
As the name suggests, France’s bakers learned the recipe for the viennoiserie of their morning croissants from the Austrians, in particular a Viennese artillery officer named August Zang who came to Paris and opened the Boulangerie Viennoise, where he introduced the küpfel bread rolls and steam oven to the French—before returning to Vienna to found a newspaper, Die Presse based on the French newspaper La Presse, and which is still published today.
The French made the küpfel their own with the creation of the special flaky pâte feuilletée used today.
Text © Dana Facaros
Image by Dr. Manavpreet Kaur