Comments on: What is your “madeleine”?

By: How to Avoid Unresolved Grief - Multicultural Kid Blogs

How to Avoid Unresolved Grief - Multicultural Kid Blogs — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 07:01:18 +0000

[…] Part of this world that we leave behind are the details from our everyday life: the smells, sounds, sights, tastes. I personally have very strong smell and taste memories that can bring me back to a specific time and place in the past, like the Madeleine de Proust. […]

By: kenthinksaloud

kenthinksaloud — Thu, 08 May 2014 23:21:41 +0000

Oh I’m sure I have many such madeleine experiences but for me this has brought back memories of the tasty sweet itself! Back in the days when I would regularly visit Paris where friends lived and hang out there. I loved madeleines.
On a separate note I’m pleased my rusty French was up to translating the passage. I read it and enjoyed it all before realising on scrolling down that you had translated it into English! Again, happy memories of days in the past desperately cramming French vocab into my head. After 6 years of studying Bengali, French seems quite easy now 🙂

By: Trilingual Mama

Trilingual Mama — Sun, 04 May 2014 20:11:23 +0000

Oh, I have lots of madeleines! But one that was unexpected was a recent short stop in Varennes, to visit the Babin ancestral home. My husband’s family history has become so intertwined with my own that I felt a familiar spirit as we visited a few key spots: a school named after my husband’s grandpa, cemetery, a WWI memorial. It was all the more delicious because I could see my children were also having a madeleine moment. Isn’t something that our madeleines are often sensory objects that remind us of people close to us, of family and relationships and the emotions these create?

By: expatsincebirth

expatsincebirth — Sat, 03 May 2014 19:40:35 +0000

In reply to vera ersilia. Thank you, Vera! Earl Grey Tea reminds me of the afternoons spent with my friends in Italy. In my case it was an English friend who brought it once and I discovered my love for tea ;-) Che bella coincidenza però... ;-)

By: vera ersilia

vera ersilia — Sat, 03 May 2014 16:20:25 +0000

One of mine is Earl Grey Tea … it takes me back to the 50s in Torino when we discovered it thanks to my brother ‘s girlfriend, later his wife. She introduced him to it and he to us at home. It had a special charm because it could only be bought
at a high-end elegant specialty store in Piazza San Carlo. To this day the light yellow Twining tin, and the cup of tea from it, has the special feel of the ‘madeleine’ for me… Thank you for his post. v.