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Tour de France des desserts
from Grand Sud 107
by O2C
Tour de France
des desserts
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La France, ce pays aux plus de 300 fromages, certes, mais aussi (et surtout!) aux 1 001 desserts! Tarte normande, crêpe bretonne, gâteau basque, cannelé bordelais… et bien d’autres. Lumière sur quelques-uns de ces délices emblématiques de l’hexagone!

Tour de France of Desserts. France: a country with over 300 cheeses, but also (and above all) 1001 desserts! Normandy tart, Breton pancakes, Basque cake, Bordeaux cannelés... and many more. Let's take a look at some of these emblematic delights!

LE SAVIEZ-VOUS ? DID YOU KNOW ?

À l’origine Louis Durand avait même dessiné les rayons de la roue de vélo en pâte à pain! Louis Durant originally even designed spokes for his bicycle wheel in bread dough!
Paris-Brest : dessert maillot jaune
Il figure sans nul doute au panthéon des desserts à la française et son nom est familier, mais son histoire reste peu connue. Le paris-brest, est un gâteau généreux, composé de deux cercles de pâte à choux en forme de couronne et agrémentés d’amandes effilées entre lesquels est placée la crème pâtissière, pralinée ou encore de la mousse paris-brest avec beurre pommade, bref, c’est selon l’envie et les affinités de chacun. Plus que d’une couronne, il s’agit en réalité d’une roue, et plus précisément d’une roue de vélo, le paris-brest ayant été créé par un pâtissier de Maisons-Laffitte, Louis Durand, pour sustenter les suiveurs de la course du Paris-Brest-Paris créée en 1910.

À l’Aéroport de Nice : Rendez-vous au Terminal 2, à l’étage de la salle d’embarquement, pour déguster le paris-brest imaginé par Éric Kayser dans une version gourmande et délicate!
Paris-Brest: the maillot jaune dessert. Undoubtedly figuring in the pantheon of French desserts, the name is all too familiar, but little is known about the history. The Paris-Brest is a generously-filled cake comprising a ring of choux pastry in the shape of a crown, decorated with slivered almonds and piped with praline-infused pastry cream or Paris-Brest mousse made with softened butter, whatever strikes your fancy. More than a crown, it’s a wheel. More precisely, a bicycle wheel, the Paris-Brest having been created in 1910 by Maison Lafitte pâtissier Louis Durand to energise followers of the Paris-Brest-Paris race.












LE SAVIEZ-VOUS ? DID YOU KNOW ?
Plus de 1000 macarons ont été livrés sur le tournage, du célèbre Marie-Antoinette de Sofia Coppola… soit 17 kilos!

More than 1,000 macarons were delivered to the set of Sofia Coppola’s famous Marie Antoinette… that’s 17 kilos!
PARIS / Le macaron : coques en stock
Incroyable mais vrai, la plus frenchie des pâtisseries puise son origine à l’étranger. Le macaron aurait d’abord été créé en Italie sous le nom de « macherronne », puis apporté en France à la Renaissance par Catherine de Médicis. Le dessert a ensuite été développé dans plusieurs régions de l’hexagone qui se disputent son origine mais à l’époque il ne s’agissait encore que d’un simple biscuit à base d’amandes. Car oui, le macaron tel que nous le connaissons aujourd’hui, est le macaron parisien, celui imaginé par Pierre Desfontaines, petit cousin de Louis Ernest Ladurée. Au milieu du XIX e siècle, ce dernier a en effet eu l’idée d’accoler deux coques de macarons avec, entre elles, la gourmande ganache.
A l’Aéroport de Nice : Retrouvez la plus parisienne des pâtisseries dans sa version azuréenne grâce au savoir-faire artisanal de Pascal LAC (boutique Aelia Duty Free) et de Mic-Mac Pâtisserie (boutique Saveurs de Provence)..
Paris / The macaron: worth shelling out for!
Unbelievable but true: the quintessential French patisserie treat actually originated abroad. The macaroon was first created in Italy and went by the name “macherronne”, before being brought to France during the Renaissance by Catherine de Medici. The dessert was then developed in several French regions, leading to disputes over its origins, but, at the time, remained a simple almond-based biscuit. The macaron we know today is the Parisian version, created by Pierre Desfontaines, younger cousin of Louis Ernest Ladurée. In the mid-19 th century, the latter had the idea of joining two macaroon shells together with gourmet ganache in between.
At Nice Airport: Find the French Riviera’s version of this most Parisian of patisserie treats thanks to Pascal LAC’s artisan knowhow (Aelia Duty Free shop) and Mic-Mac Pâtisserie (Saveurs de Provence shop).

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AIX EN PROVENCE/ Le Calisson :
dessert soleil

Voilà un dessert qui a le mérite d’allier le fond et la forme ! Le calisson, mélange d’amandes et fruits confits chapeauté d’une glace royale, a adopté la forme du fruit à coque qui le compose. L’origine du dessert emblématique du pays aixois serait à situer au XII e siècle, mais l’anecdote que nous retiendrons est celle de Jeanne de Laval qui se pava de bonheur en dégustant la gourmandise servit lors de son mariage avec le Roi René d’Anjou ! Attention, on ne plaisante pas avec le calisson qui fait l’objet d’une Indication d’origine protégée: Aixois, sinon rien!
A l’Aéroport de Nice : Pour emporter dans votre valise un peu de Provence, ou pour une idée de cadeau originale, rendez-vous dans les boutiques Relay, So Nice, Aelia Duty Free et Saveurs de Provence!
Aix en Provence / The Calisson: a sunny dessert. This dessert has the merit of combining substance and form! The calisson, a mixture of almonds and candied fruit topped with royal icing, has adopted the shape of the nut from which it’s made. Pays d’Aix’s emblematic dessert is said to date back to the 12 th century, but we all remember the anecdote of a delighted Jeanne de Laval sampling the delicacy at her wedding with King René d'Anjou! There’s no room for ambiguity when it comes to the calisson’s geographical roots, the subject of a Protected Designation of Origin: Aixois, or nothing! At Nice Airport : Visit the Relay, So Nice, Aelia Duty Free and Saveurs de Provence shops for an original gift idea, or to take back a little piece of Provence in your suitcase!
RENDEZ-VOUS
Au musée du Calisson du Roy René, à quelques minutes d’Aix en Provence pour découvrir (presque tous) les secrets de fabrication du dessert provencal.
Head to the Roy René Calisson Museum, a few minutes from Aix en Provence, to discover (almost all) the secrets of how this Provencal dessert is made.






































































