Memories of Cake: The madeleine is best known for its guest role in Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past." A madeleine is a shell-shaped cake that is reputedly named for a 19th-century French cook named Madeleine Paumier. Proust's narrator dunks one in some tea that triggers seven long, long volumes that hardly anyone has enough lifetime left to read. Incidentally, Proust's original title is better translated as "In Search of Lost Time."

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