We here at The Salt usually ignore food festivals and those "Celebrate Whatever We're Eating Now" Days. They're a bit precious, no? But this one was too good to pass up: Today is the day the French ...

The Gateau St. Honoré is a classic French torte named after St. Honoré, the patron saint of pastry chefs. A base of flaky, tender rough puff is topped with two rings of choux pastry and pastry cream.

The order comes in for a St. Honore cake. Dominique Delanghe looks impassively from behind the counter of his pastry shop in lower Pacific Heights in San Francisco. He's made hundreds of these ornate ...

You know you're too old for Halloween when people compliment you on your John McCain mask and you're not wearing one. But with surveys indicating that two-thirds of adults will celebrate the holiday, ...

Pictures of Saint Honore or (Saint Honoratus) from church iconography reinforce his baker background. He's holding his wooden peel, often with a... We here at The Salt usually ignore food festivals ...