Mille-feuille

The mille-feuille (French pronunciation: ​[mil fœj], "a thousand leaves"),^{[notes 1]} vanilla slice, custard slice, also known as theNapoleon, is a French pastry whose exact origin is unknown. Its modern form was influenced by improvements of Marie-Antoine Carême.

Traditionally, a mille-feuille is made up of three layers of puff pastry(pâte feuilletée), alternating with two layers of pastry cream (crème pâtissière), but sometimes whipped cream or jam are substituted. The top pastry layer is dusted withconfectioner's sugar, and sometimes cocoa, pastry crumbs, or pulverized seeds (e.g. roasted almonds). Alternatively the top is glazed with icing or fondant in alternating white (icing) andbrown (chocolate) stripes, and combed.

Composition

Traditionally, a mille-feuille is made up of three layers of puff pastry, and two layers of crème pâtissière. The top layer is coated with a sprinkling of powdered sugar.^[2] In later variations, the top is glazed with icing, in alternating white (icing) and brown (chocolate) strips, and then combed. Today, there are alsosavory mille-feuille, with cheese and spinach or other savory fillings.

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Beard Papa's

Beard Papa's (ビアード・パパ^?) is an international chain of cream puff stores started in Japan by the companyMuginoho Co., Ltd. (株式会社麦の穂^?). Their slogan is "Fresh and natural cream puffs". Beard Papa's has over 250 stores in Japan and 300 worldwide.

Their trademark product is a choux pastry shell filled with whipped cream custard, available in vanilla, chocolate, and specialty flavors such as green tea, strawberry, Nutella, Limoncello, coconut creme, Black Sesame, Cheese, Almond cream, Azuki bean, Pineapple, Matcha Azuki, Durian, Hazelnut, Apple Cinnamon, Hazelnut, Cookie and Creme, Key Lime Pie, Banana, Piña Colada,Dulce de leche, mango, pumpkin, S'more, Earl Grey tea, éclair, and coffee. In addition, Hawaiian location(Ala Moana) also has haupia, lilikoi, Baileys Irish Cream, Mint Chocolate, Raspberry Chocolate, Red Velvet Cake and caramel flavors, and In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia location also have Cinnamon, Dates, and Pistachioflavors. The different flavors are sold on a rotating schedule.

History

The first Beard Papa's was opened in 1999 by Yuji Hirota in Osaka, Japan with the motto Pipin' Hot Cream Puffs. Since its beginnings Beard Papa's has grown considerably expanding outside of Osaka and Japan to Australia, Canada, China, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The company opened a flagship outlet, its first in Europe, in London's Oxford Street in December 2006. This closed in 2010.

In June 2008, Beard Papa's was ranked "Wired" by Wired Magazine, the magazine's highest rating, above "Tired" and "Expired".

The Beard Papa character appeared in the 2012 Disney animated film Wreck-It Ralph and was voiced by John DiMaggio.^[5]

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