When Seattle restaurateur Marco Casas Beaux was growing up in Mar del Plata, Argentina, every morning started with a cafe con leche and a media luna — a pastry similar to a croissant, but smaller and sweeter. In the afternoons, he’d sometimes snack on English tea sandwiches or biscotti, and thick-crusted Argentine pizza was a dinner staple.
“Argentina is the only country in Latin America that has almost 90% European backgrounds,” Casas Beax says. “They all brought their own style of pastries with them, and we were lucky enough to be able to get a taste of everything.”
Casas Beaux, whose family immigrated to Argentina from Italy,
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