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Friday, June 12, 2009
If you haven't tasted French marshmallow/guimauve in Paris...
You have a big treat in store like these chocolate-covered marshmallows at Pain De Sucre... 
These are called Nounours after the kid's treats that are shaped like bears - and they're made into a lollypop for adults!
I am ever fascinated by the French attachment to the penny candy of their childhood - they refuse to give it up! And it's transformed into the most sophisticated of treats like this pricy pack at Laduree. I was tempted but it's not easy to shell out $12 bucks for a stack of pink marshmallows is it?
This Gerard Mulot stack of mallows is only 6 euros...still I didn't budge...
You will find marshmallows high and low-end in Paris everywhere....
Stacks and stacks of them at the Salon du Chocolat!
These packs at La Mere du Famille get me every time (4.50 euros and worth every penny/centime! The deal is you taste the delicate flavors and the sugar is an undertone - hard to believe I know...
Pain De Sucre creates very exotic flavors-cassis, safron, etc. a little too exotique for moi...
High piles of chocolate covered marshmallows againat the choco Salon...
Those chocolate bears/oursons I was telling you about but these are high-end...
Back to French kid stuff...
Even Hello Kitty pops...As a kid I used to toast marshmallows over the stove on a fork until they were blackened on the outside and deliciously gooey inside (always when my parents were out of the house :)
Do you have an attachment to marshmallows too?
And have you tried them in Paris?
It will be a whole new experience I promise.
Meanwhile watch this little movie. Food for thought.
BONJOUR GUIMAUVES!!!
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