stackyFACTSThe ultimate symbol of French culinary snobbery isn't even French. The buttery crescent pastry evolved from the Austrian 'kipferl,' and only became a Parisian staple after an Austrian artillery officer opened a bakery in Paris in the nineteenth century.
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