Marrons Glacés

It is generally accepted that marrons glacés, or candied chestnuts, were invented somewhere in Liguria, probably in either the province of Genoa or Savona. It is thought that during one of the many French occupations of Genoa during the eighteenth century that the delicacy was discovered, renamed, and carried off to France. To be frank, I was never much of a fan of marrons glacés. I found the taste muddy, the sensation in the mouth cloying, and I always had a terrible sense that my teeth ne