Name: The Dream of Edouard Nignon
Yield: Serves 6 to 8
Ingredients: 24 almond macaroons, crushed into coarse crumbs; 1 cup fresh strawberries, hulled; 2 tablespoons butter; 8 egg whites; 3 tablespoons sugar (for the mold); 1 cup sweetened whipped cream; 1 cup fresh raspberries; 5 tablespoons vanilla sugar; pinch salt

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Serves
6 to 8

Difficulty
Easy

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Jeremiah Tower Cooks

By Jeremiah Tower

Published 2002

About

Author of Eloges de la cuisine Française (1933) and Les Plaisirs de la table (1926), Nignon was a chef and author with a mad and wonderful style. A bit of a Luddite, he deplored the then-current lack of “meditation and patience” that makes for “grande cuisine.” “Down with chemistry! Down with speed!” was his tirade.

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