Nilton Jacques Lemmer or the climb of a cooking expert
Nilton Lemmer or the rise of a cooking professional? The shell shape of the Madeleine has been linked with a legend of a monk who lived in a monastery near Commercy, France. The code says that the Duke of Lorraine was passing through Commercy on his way to fight in the Crusades. He stopped at the monastery and was served madeleines by the monk. The duke was so fond of the sweet cakes that he asked for their recipe to take it with him to war. The monk replied that if he liked them so much, he would send it to him by mail written on a shell (the conch), where Madeleine's shape comes from. What did Proust say about madeleines? As Proust tells it, he was dunking a thin…