Someone wrote yesterday:
One thing I simply cannot understand, is the fascination (obsession ?) that you and many others have of macarons.
What exactly is it that is so delicious about these ?
So I thought I'd focus on the French obsession with Fruits Rouges / red fruit desserts today.
This from Gerard Mulot, who loves colorful fruity desserts.
Another Gerard Mulot - a fraiser, full of strawberries of course.
These squares of raspberries are from Fauchon and the touch of green pistachio around the edges only heightens the redness of the fruit.
Individual RED tarts. Are they to cheer up the Parisian grey skies?
Here French painter Fantin-Latour included a lush plate of fraises / strawberries with a canister of sugar...just in case.
We saw these drink-your-red-fruits smoothies at the Beaubourg museum cafe
Giant fraise tagada strawberry-shaped candies at the Odeon candy shop.
Oh my.. It all looks so lovely. To pretty to eat tho. I see why Fantin-Latour immortalized food in his paintings. His work is wonderful. Wonder what he would have done with the Macaron? Besides devour them. ;)
ReplyDeleteRouge, passion, and the incontrovertible artistry on display...these are not hints enough? Oh dear PB what does this person live on? Does the reader merely eat for sustenance, and never soar? Poetry and paintings and really red red treats...send them quick, your reader is at risk...of just existing, not giving into bliss.
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All best, Jan
Who is this person that questions our love of Macarons? Is this not an offence that you can be imprisoned for?
ReplyDeleteI know why we love them - the colours and the bubbles in their surface.
I actually tasted one not long ago, made by a Michelin Star restaurant in our area - they wouldn't win awards with them but the pistachio colour was to die for.
I feel a bit shallow now!
Oui, et rouge est la couleur de l'amour! To question the existence and pursuit of the perfect ethereal macaron, is to question French culture. Macarons are to France what apple pies are to Americans. The nerve of some people. Gros Bisous, Ms. Glaze
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ReplyDeleteBeautiful reds for a cold gray day. I needed that!
ReplyDeleteThree more months till my first box of macarons! Will you count down with me?! lol
I think to love macarons, one must discover them in France, like I did several years ago. Munching on one while walking the streets of Paris is one of the great pleasures of life. (Perhaps the first taste of a macaron must be mixed with Paris air and exhaust fumes???)
ReplyDeleteDear Paris Breakfasts, Carol, if I may,
ReplyDeleteI did not read the comment.
But I do, I am able, I kind of, understand the sentiment.
Sweetness and only sweetness can become cloying.
:))
PS: of course I am just pistachio or peppermint green. My ONLY nearby French boulangerie and general grocer has been sold to an English outfit and they just CANNOT produce those tartelettes, those meringues, those slices of pissaladier . . .
They produce a travesty of the original, sob, sob. Ah, idea! can you persuade a nice Mulot or Fauchon to open another shop. The best road is Great Portland Street, London West One. Thank you.
In my mind--no other color could be more French than Le Rouge. All those red, ripe, raspberries make Laduree green pale in comparison.
ReplyDeleteall this red is so cheery! go go macaron!
ReplyDeleteI don't think I tasted a single one of these...Unlike some people who are forced to eat their subject matter..
ReplyDeleteJust gazing through shop windows and trying not to get blurry berries...
Carolg
Sorry for you, anonymous, that you "simply cannot understand" the macaron thing.
ReplyDeleteIf you've tried Mulot and don't get it ... well, perhaps that says more about you than macarons.
That's like saying, "What's the big deal with goat cheese?" Or "Who really likes Cote du Rhone wines?" Maybe Oreos or Fig Newtons are more your speed.
Stay with what you know.
Monsieur P.
I keep saying I haven't got a sweet tooth... but, when watching all those fruits rouges, I can feel my tooth getting sweeter and sweeter !
ReplyDeleteThese are sooooo beautiful!!!
ReplyDeleteIt made me so hungry for wonderful fruit desserts!!! Thanks!
Linda
Tres colore - j'adore ca.
ReplyDeleteJoyeux Noel!
Jolie
The French seem obsessed with red berries!
ReplyDeleteMaybe the French are just OBSESSED! :)
L.C.
lol :) I'm still patiently waiting to try my first macaron carol. I shall have to make sure that when that day comes I will have a red one!
ReplyDeleteI must say that red cow pocketbook is one of the oddest things I've seen in a handbag. Although I did have a pink pig face pocketbook when I was a kid.
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness your doing it too me again all this gorgeous delicious food I'll never loose a few lbs before Christmas. Oh well....
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Really useful information, thanks for the post.
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