Creme de Marrons (Chestnut Puree)

Creme de Marrons (Chestnut Puree)David, 13 Jan 06:55 AM When I was sprier (and when I could eat all that chocolate!) I used to do culinary tours. On [Web Version](  [Preferences](  [Subscribe](  [Like](  [Tweet](  [Pin](  [DavidLebovitz Update](  [Creme de Marrons (Chestnut Puree)]( David, 13 Jan 06:55 AM When I was sprier (and when I could eat all that chocolate!) I used to do culinary tours. One of the most fun things to do was to take people into places and explain some of the lesser-known items that, incongruently, France is famous for. I know. I had to think about that for a minute, too. I’d point out things like [fleur de sel]( salted butter from Brittany (doing my best to reverse decades of people insisting that gourmands only ate unsalted butter), the esteemed (and ridiculously delicious) [Madame Loïk]( [Amora]( mustard, [Kiri]( and [caillé](. I even shared some of the [goofier things]( here on the blog, which has been up for a decade but still has only 1 share on Pinterest and 17 on Facebook. So perhaps I overestimated people’s interest in [pop’n]( fresh-style croissant dough sold in cardboard tubes, and rosé wine pre-mixed with grapefruit flavoring. Still, he persisted. Take crème de marrons, for example. It’s hard to get people outside of France to pay attention to it. Heck, even the [Wikipedia page]( for it, in French, when you head over to the English version, takes you to a page about [candied chestnuts]( not chestnut cream. It easy to dismiss the dubiously brown paste that comes in a tin, that’s admittedly a lot prettier than what’s in it. But if you’re not familiar with it, I urge you to consider it. Continue Reading [Creme de Marrons (Chestnut Puree)](... [Pinterest]( [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [Twitter](  ©2020 Room for Dessert Inc | 12 Timber Creek Lane, Newark, Delaware 19711 [Web Version](  [Subscribe](  [Forward](  [Unsubscribe](   [Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company]()