Puff Pastry: Light, Delicate, and Largely Forgotten
By James MacGuire
WELL-MADE, IT’S THE LIGHTEST of pastries: crisp thin leaves of buttery richness with brown wheaty flavors from the golden surface, each mouthful demolished in just one clench of the teeth and quickly melting on the tongue. Alas, at the mention of puff pastry, what comes to many people’s minds is the evocatively named mille-feuil…