Halva Sablé

There is something special about sablé in Alexandria. This unassuming cookie, whose name fittingly means “sandy” in French, has delighted Alexandrians for decades. Some say the obsession began in Montazah, where a pastry manufacturer baked fresh sablé and sold them in turquoise boxes labelled in Arabic and French. Others claim it dates back to Patisserie Fluckiger, near the Santa Lucia restaurant in town. Regardless of its origins, sablé is to Alexandria what the croiss