Marrons, a special chestnut from the Ardèche region, ... "The marron glace takes so much time to produce, which is why it's rather expensive. It's not the most popular gift, ...

IT all started with marrons glaces, each candied chestnut wrapped in burnished foil, tucked into a beautiful box. The best are moist and sweet to the core but retain the full flavor of mellow ...

What they are: The earliest recipe for marrons glacés, or candied and glazed chestnuts, originates from 16th-century France, and gained in popularity in Louis XIV’s opulent Versailles court. Thousands ...

And as for marrons glaces, I ended up buying a box.. betty.hallock@latimes.com * Chocolate chestnut cake. Total time: 2 hours, 45 minutes, plus overnight chilling time. Servings: 16. Note: Adapted ...

Marrons Glacés: $4 a Nut, But Worth Reminiscing Over The ultra-sugary confections, popular in France and Italy, have a creamy texture and unmistakable warm chestnut flavor Lisa Bramen ...

Fill the halls with marrons glacés on facebook ... Agrimontana has revived the Piedmontese marron, firmer with beautiful rounded chestnut warmth (12 for £12.80, eataly.co.uk). Masha Rener, ...

Marrons glaces: the connoisseur's chestnut. Tiny Collobrières, hidden in the forests of the Massif des Maures in Provence, is internationally revered by sweet-toothed gourmets.

Many residents favor the marrons glacés prepared by Giovanni Galli 1911, one of the best-known confectioners in the city. By Kerry Olsen Reporting from Milan There are myriad ways to ape haute ...

Forget the marrons glacés and dodgy men with braziers, and start thinking châtaignes . . . Anthony Gardner on one man's mission to convert the British to the French way with chestnuts Warning ...