The Art of French Pastry

(Chris Devlin) #1

Beignets fascinate me; they
are so bad for you and yet
everyone loves a warm
piece of freshly fried dough
sprinkled with sugar.
Pastries made with fried
dough date back at least as
far as the time of the
Egyptians, to whom dough
expanding in hot oil
symbolized rebirth and life
in general. They are
consumed around the

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