![]() So now I have in front of me a cup of tea and a spoon and a madeleine this is one that we bought at Starbucks. ![]() An exquisite pleasure invaded my senses.'ĬHADWICK: And from this moment, all these memories flow out because this moment is so magical. No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me. ![]() `I raised to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had soaked a morsel of the cake. This is the cookie known as a madeleine, a shell-shaped confection that inspired French author Marcel Proust's legendary flood of memories in his work "Remembrance of Things Past." Our literary sleuth is Slate contributor and food writer Edmund Levin.Įdmund, welcome to DAY TO DAY and remind us exactly what Proust did with this madeleine and why there is a question about this cookie.ĮDMUND LEVIN (Slate): Well, in "Remembrance of Things Past" which is a 3,000-page novel, there is a scene in the book where the narrator, who is a fictionalized Marcel Proust, dips this madeleine in some tea, and the spoonful of tea mixed with crumbs is kind of the point where the novel reaches escape velocity and he has this flood of memories that spark the whole rest of the novel.ĬHADWICK: Read us just that passage, will you? Our partners at Slate magazine have published a piece that delves into one of the great literary mysteries of all time: how the cookie crumbles. Now with the results of a unique exercise in investigative reporting. ![]()
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