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[edit] Origin of Macaron

• Macaron recepie came from Italy, the chefs of Catherine de Medici brought the recipe to France at the time of Catherine's marriage to Henry II of France. [1]
• Connection with Nancy is that, the granddaughter of Catherine de Medici in Nancy was supposedly saved from starvation by eating them.
• The double sided version of the Macaron was made first by Ladurée's grandson Pierre Desfontaines in 1930 [2]

Any further information is welcome. STTW (talk) 09:06, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge with Macaroon

The Macaroon article says "The English word macaroon comes from the French macaron..." and describes a very similar cookie. As an American I've often eaten macaroons but I've never heard the word macaron, and apparently it's just a language difference. In my experience, Wikipedia doesn't have a separate article for a foreign word for something, redescribing the same object. Art LaPella 17:48, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Based on what I've seen of the pictures from the two articles, the Macaron and the Macaroon look very different and should probably be kept separate; unless someone wants to demarcate that they are different styles like in the pound cake article. SailorAlphaCentauri 16:44, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Despite the similarity of the name the two cakes are pretty different; the macaron is similar to a meringue, a macaroon is much denser with coconut. SgtThroat 18:19, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

My wife is French and I'm British - we agree that macarons and macaroons are not quite the same thing - although they are sufficiently similar things with sufficiently similar names that there absolutely must be some connection. However, there should at least be a mention of Macaroon in the Macaron article and vice-versa because we have two almost identical names for two very similar things and the scope for confusion in our readership is huge. SteveBaker 18:50, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

None of you suggested merging and all of you seem to know something I don't, so I removed my merge tag. Art LaPella 21:13, 7 March 2007 (UTC)