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pastry

[pay-stree] / ˈpeɪ stri /


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At the Los Angeles Culinary Institute he trained in classic French cooking, then became a pastry chef at the Ritz-Carlton.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

Chimney cake, another street-food classic turned visitor must-have, is a hollow caramelized pastry prepared over charcoal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Culinary and pastry courses, once relatively rare in India, have proliferated over the past decade, with foreign private schools helping drive its high-end hospitality sector.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

It’s a film unlike any other period piece, as sumptuous as decadent as a French pastry.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

“Oh, you’re in for a treat. Your pastry education is about to begin. Tea as well, girls?”

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

I love Moroccan pastries, especially cornes de gazelle, with coffee or fresh mint tea.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Orban chose cheese, Vučiċ meat, when they sat down to a quick lunch of traditional burek pastries at a small, popular town centre bakery in Subotica almost a year ago.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Refined carbohydrates include foods made with heavily processed grains and sugars, such as white bread, pastries, and many sugary snacks.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

From Burbank to West Covina, lines tend to form out the door at each of the chain’s locations, with patrons ordering boxes of their signature potato balls, cheese rolls and other pastries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

The smell of pastries and mint soap filled my room.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia


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