The Art of French Pastry

to the village bakery to pick
up d’flaischpàschtet, the
Alsatian word for the warm
meat pie. Half the village of
Lutzelhouse speaks the
Alsatian dialect, a rough
Germanic language that
evolved over centuries of
invasions and occupations
in this disputed area at the
German frontier.
Lutzelhouse is typical of
villages in the eastern part