La vie parisienne

In France, we celebrate Epiphany (also known as Three Kings’ Day ) on January 6th by doing what we do best: eating. In this case, a delicious pastry called galette des rois. The golden-brown cakes are made of puff pastry with a sweet almond filling and have a little porcelain figure (la fève) hidden inside. […]

You probably already know baguette, croissants, pain au chocolat, brioche, macarons, crêpes, entrecôte, steak-frites, tartar, croque-monsieur and cordon bleu. But what about these Parisian culinary classics? Jambon-beurre Nick-named the ‘parisien’, this is the French sandwich par excellence, consisting of 20 centimeters of baguette, each half generously coated with salted butter, two slices of wafer-thin Prince de […]