Chocolate and Vanilla French Macarons

I often joke that there are as many methods of baking macarons as there are chefs or ovens. This method, which I first learned at the Rainbow Room in the mid-1990s, is completely reliable, and when you’re baking macarons, maybe for the first time, that’s what you need. I used to not believe that baking was as precise as it has a reputation for being, even years after working in the industry. However, for macarons, precise measurement is particularly important because of the variables that c