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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)

The story that Catherine de Medici came to France with chefs and recipes is a myth and utter nonsense. She had no influence at all at the French court untill years later, when she started having children and het husband, the second son of François I became the dauphin when his brother, the Dauphin François, died. Only then she could become queen, but the real power was in hands of Henri's misstress. Only after Henri died she gained real influence. The food at the French court had nothing to do with Catherine untill then! Johannes van Dam —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.250.199.119 (talk) 10:27, 11 February 2008 (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)

[edit] Flavors

Rose and violet flavors? Sounds like it could use some elaboration. --Scottandrewhutchins 15:20, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External links

I have removed most of the external links. It is unnecessary to have links to every macaron-seller in the world. - AKeen (talk) 23:23, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "In popular Culture"

The second point in this section sounds like it belongs in a teen girl's blog. Also accessories of most pastry/dessert/candy items are popular in Asia. Remove or edit.Terukiyo (talk) 23:57, 30 April 2008 (UTC)