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France's iconic croque monsieur, delighting Parisians since the early 1900s

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A croque monsieur is a classic -- and substantial -- French bistro sandwich that pairs ham with Gruyere, Dijon mustard and a rich Mornay sauce. 

With the 2024 Summer Olympics recently in Paris, many of us are thinking about French food � specifically, how to cook some of the iconic bistro dishes those lucky enough to score tickets to one of the events might have been enjoying in the City of Light.

The one that looms largest for me is the first dish I sampled on my first-ever trip to Paris this past March, at Buvette in the heart of the city's Pigalle neighborhood: the saucy, obscenely decadent toasted cheese sandwich known as croque monsieur.





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