The popular YouTube cooking channel Food Wishes describes it as "the hardest, but also most delicious pastry in the world" and "way past mind-blowing." I don't ever want to give you unrealistic expectations in this column, but it's true.
The difficult-to-pronounce, but easy-to-love kouign-amann ("queen a mon") originally hails from Brittany. I first discovered it in Montreal, at a beautiful little bakery named in its honor. Buttery, shatteringly crunchy and sugary, it tasted like a croissant and a palmier had teamed up to create a pastry fit for the gods.
