French

A. country where the croissant is two days of work, the mille-feuille is 729 layers, and the tarte Tatin started as an accident in a Loire kitchen and ended as a national institution. We pulled together every pastry worth knowing — eight rooms, deep — from the pâtissiers who guard the technique and the regions that wrote the rules.

French sits under Bake in the HowTo Food menu. It has 6 sections: Bread, Pastry, Cake, Cookies, Dessert Bakes and Quick Breads.