"Pate a choux sounds like a ballet step," my friend exclaimed when I told her I was writing about it. The French name, pate a choux, has never become part of America's mainstream culinary jargon. But ...

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Pate a choux sounds like one of those impossible-to-do French pastry techniques you would only see demonstrated on a PBS baking show or on Food Network. Never would we consider making this type of ...