Lemon Snow with Golden Grand Marnier Sauce

This dessert is elegant, light and refreshing yet totally satisfying—the perfect ending to a heavy meal but equally delightful as the finale to a light midnight supper. In fact, it is probably the most perfect all-around dessert in my repertoire. It was this dessert I chose many years ago when I invited Lydie Marshall, owner of A La Bonne Cocotte cooking school in New York, and her husband, Wayne, for dinner. I was so nervous I curdled the