pastries

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I use it two days later to buy a loaf of rye bread, plus pastries for Salmon and me: ham-and-cheese croissant, cinnamon bun.

From Slate • May 10, 2026

Owner Cat Cox, a Tulsa native, trained first as a paper-maker, which might explain the delicacy of her pastries.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Or maybe the splurge is reserved for the morning after: flaky pastries from the good bakery, eaten slowly with nice coffee when there’s nowhere in particular you need to be.

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2026

Her mother, who only went to primary school, sells fatayas and nems -- savoury pocket pastries and spring rolls -- outside the family's compound where their extended family lives.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

It had sat in that same location for decades and had a loyal following of people who would cross boroughs and state lines to buy bread and pastries there.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser