Let Them Eat Macarons!
The Delightful French Pastry Actually Hails From Medieval Italy
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8 min readMar 19, 2021
Parisian macarons are everywhere.
The classic French cookie — a sweet meringue-based confection made with egg white, icing sugar, granulated sugar, almond meal, and food coloring — can be found just as easily in upscale bakeries and desserts shops as it can on the shelves at Trader Joes.