Whose Croissant Is It Anyway? Austria, France, and the Ottoman Empire Walk Into a Bakery.

Everyone knows the croissant is French. It isn't.In this episode: an Austrian pastry, a Viennese artillery officer with a bakery in Paris, Marie Antoinette (probably innocent), and the Ottoman army that tried to conquer Vienna in 1683 — and may have accidentally invented breakfast for the entire Western world.The French perfected it. The Austrians invented it. The Ottomans inspired the shape. And everyone is calling it French.History is complicated. The butter is not.🦇 battyontour.com