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Old Sep 7th, 2010, 04:12 AM
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For chicken I would just be buying one of those gorgeous rotisserie chickens!!
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Old Sep 7th, 2010, 11:39 AM
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Gretchen: With the buttery/fat/greasy potatoes that sit underneath and just baste themselves. Oh, yum, I can hardly wait to get back-39 days, but who's counting!!!
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Old Sep 7th, 2010, 12:41 PM
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For macarons, try:

Pain de Sucre
14 Rue Rambuteau
http://www.patisseriepaindesucre.com/

It shouldn't be far from where you are staying, and the macarons were to die for, as were the gourmet marshmallows. Give the pistachio one a try
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Old Sep 7th, 2010, 12:43 PM
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PS-- macaroons and macarons are not the same thing.
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Old Sep 8th, 2010, 04:56 PM
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Please forgive my ignorance but what are "macarons"? English nor french are my first languages.
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Old Sep 8th, 2010, 07:35 PM
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No, no...wasn't trying to point out a misspelling, just simply letting you know. It's a commonly confused thing amongst Americans, where macaroons are more prevalent
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Old Sep 8th, 2010, 07:53 PM
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Macarons ate a sweet flavorwed sandwich "cookie'". Macaroons are the coconut drop soft "cookies".

Personally, I think both are gross, but I think sugar is fairly vile.
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Old Sep 9th, 2010, 05:53 AM
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This is the exact same word just in two different languages. Different countries have different recipes for what cookie they use that word for, that is all. Macaron is French and macaroon is English for the exact same word, which I believe is really Italian, maccarone or maccherone.
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Old Sep 9th, 2010, 12:56 PM
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Actually Christina, Macaroons are different from Macarons. Both words derive from maccherone, but the end product is different depending on country. The only similarity is that all are unleavened "cookies" with a meringue base.

Americans used to a macaroon, which is a soft, but dense coconut covered, sometimes chocolate dipped cake-like mound "cookie," would be shocked to find candy-hued meringue shell sandwich cookies at Ladurée or whatever place is currently hailed as the best macaron place in Paris (or elsewhere in France for that matter).
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Old Sep 9th, 2010, 01:01 PM
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Thanks everyone. On the macaroon side, I was thinking of those Laduree type meringue cookies not the dense ones. I will find out soon.
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Actually, in northeastern France, if you say "macaron" a lot of people will think you are talking about the soft coconut cookie.

The name of the soft coconut cookie in Paris is "congolais".
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Old Sep 9th, 2010, 01:47 PM
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Interesting Kerouac, I knew that congolais was the same as the dense thing, but not that macaron was also considered the dense thing in northeastern France.

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