Maryann Tebben Featured in Smart Mouth’s Article on the Madeleine Cookie

By Emily Berge-Thielmann

Madeleine cookies

Curious about the origins of the tantalizing French cookie the madeleine? The madeleine, which has a long literary legacy, including a highlight in French author Marcel Proust’s, À la recherche du temps perdu, or translated in English, In Search of Lost Time is featured this month in the Smart Mouth Substack in a piece entitled: “Give Us Every Single Madeleine,” with insight from Simon’s Rock Professor of French, Director of the Center for Food Studies and the Center for Food and Resilience, Maryann Tebben.

“Even if the origins of the madeleine’s cake batter fade indistinctly into the past, the madeleine still had a starting point we can chase after,” says historian Maryann Tebben. “The cake,” she says, “existed from the Middle Ages, probably. I think the shell shape is what makes it a madeleine.”

Want to learn more about the madeleine? Follow this link to the article now:

https://smartmouth.substack.com/p/give-us-every-single-madeleine