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 ...

France may have perfected the croissant, but it did not invent it. The pastry’s roots lead back to Austria, where an earlier crescent-shaped bread inspired what came later. French bakers refined the ...

A brief history of the croissant – from kipfel to Cronut Amanda Fiegl One bite of a croissant just pulled from the oven at Michel Lyczak’s bakery in the southern Parisian suburb of Malakoff is bliss: ...

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 ...