10 Recipes
Crêpe
A paper-thin Breton buckwheat or sweet flour crêpe cooked on a billig griddle and filled to order on the street.
Jambon-Beurre
A French baguette split and generously buttered, layered with thin slices of quality cooked ham.
Frites
Double-fried Belgian-style thin chips sold in paper cones from street stands, served with mayonnaise.
Socca
A crispy Niçoise chickpea-flour pancake blistered under a wood fire, broken into rough pieces and seasoned with pepper.
Merguez Frites
Spicy North African lamb sausages grilled and served in a baguette with frites and harissa—a Paris street staple.
Galette Bretonne
A buckwheat crêpe from Brittany filled with ham, Emmental, and a runny egg cooked directly on the galette.
Tarte Flambée
An Alsatian thin-crust flatbread spread with crème fraîche, smoked lardons, and onions, baked at furnace heat.
Pain au Chocolat
A rectangular flaky puff pastry encasing two dark chocolate batons, buttery and warm from the boulangerie oven.
Gaufre de Liège
A caramelized yeasted Belgian-style waffle studded with pearl sugar, eaten warm from a street iron.
Croissant
The icon of French viennoiserie—hundreds of laminated butter layers rolled into a crescent and baked to a shatter.