French bakeries are must-stop shops for croissants, pastries, and bread. But what makes them traditional? We asked three of ...

The French bakers' lobby has launched a campaign to keep bread on people's minds. Their slogan, which is plastered on billboards and inscribed on... Got Baguettes? Bakers' Lobby Tells France To Eat ...

French gastronomy is characterized by two things: Good wine, and even better bread. It's why there's a bakery on virtually every corner of Paris, and why you see so many French people walking with a ...

A French pastry chef is bringing authenticity to his Asheville bakery, while expanding operations to cater to Western North Carolina customers.

Renowned French baker Frédéric Lalos, known as 'The Bread Whisperer', crafts exquisite bread using local wheat, slow kneading, and long fermentation. Holding a Michelin star, he supplies elite ...

Baguettes are a notable component of France's culinary scene. Now, French bakers have taken the record for the longest baguette ever made. At 461 feet, it trumps the previous Italian record of 435 ...

In Millery, a small town in southeastern France, Élodie Chavret runs a bakery to make a living for herself and her two daughters. The 39-year-old is also a part-time firefighter but, she says, this is ...

A pain suisse pastry isn’t as rare a find as the Hope Diamond, but it’s seldom seen at Bay Area bakeries. The long-reigning crown prince of viennoiserie is, sans doute, the pain au chocolat. What ...

Why that’s so is a question reader Joe Rouse submitted for Curious Louisiana. “What is the background of New Orleans French bread?” he asks. “We have been to Paris but saw nothing like that there.” As ...

The French, it seems, aren't eating bread the way they used to. The average French person consumes just half a baguette a day, down from a full baguette 40 years ago. Those statistics worry the French ...