Bruxie Is a Euro-Smash

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • December 22, 2010
For a city that can’t agree on a common language, the people of Brussels are united in pride on the waffle, their defining regional foodstuff. To them, a proper waffle is what a thin-crust pizza is to a New Yorker. Recently, the president of...
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