Alan Davidson

Pâtisserie

Appears in
Oxford Companion to Food
Oxford Companion to Food

By Alan Davidson

Published 2014

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pâtisserie the French word for a pastry-cook’s shop. In English this has come to mean, by extension, the goods in the shop, particularly fine and fancy small sweet cakes.

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© the Estate of Alan Davidson 1999, 2006, 2014 © in the Editor’s contribution to the second and third editions, Oxford University Press 2006, 2014.