pastries

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I use it two days later to buy a loaf of rye bread, plus pastries for Salmon and me: ham-and-cheese croissant, cinnamon bun.

From Slate • May 10, 2026

Owner Cat Cox, a Tulsa native, trained first as a paper-maker, which might explain the delicacy of her pastries.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Meanwhile, salty snacks gained 1.5 percentage points and pastries gained 1.4 percentage points.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

Dessert is another excellent opportunity here: a box of pastries, a sliceable cake from a favorite bakery, something that feels a little celebratory.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026

She loved her bosses at Essential Baking Company, and the smell of warm pastries, and the way the old people’s faces at Sunnyside Eldercare would light up when she came in.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti