But they're still delicious, and at one-tenth the price, a cost-effective solution for everyday munching. These classic fruit slices from Gimbal’s Fine Candies are oceans away from Pâtes de Fruits. They range from good to very good, but is yet close to taking the ribbon from the La Maison du Chocolat. There is a generation of skilled and innovative American chocolatiers and confectioners who now produce pâtes de fruits. The years since the New York boutique opened has seen the expansion of culinary celebrity, attracting great talents to the kitchen and the candy shop. But while an improvement over Chuckles, they held no candle to La Maison du Chocolat’s fruit gel squares. In the interim, we tried all the imported fruit jellies we could find-some even shaped like the pieces of fruit they emulated. But finally La Maison du Chocolate opened a New York City boutique on the Upper East Side of New York City, and then another in Rockefeller Center, ensuring a steady supply. The crossing took ten years, a decade during which every traveler to Paris was made to bring back a few boxes. *Pronounced POT duh froo-EE- not pâté (pah-TAY), which is a different type of food and not made of fruit. Before leaving town we stocked up on all the pâte de fruits we could manage, unsure that such shimmering gems of intense fruit flavor would ever cross to our side of the ocean. But they tasted like something quite out of this world. * To the unschooled they looked like French relatives of the children’s fruit jellies like Chuckles and the more refined Gimbal’s fruit slices. But what captured our fancy most were the pâtes de fruits. Yes, the chocolate was deliciously dark, the fondants silky and the sophisticated flavors quite unlike anything available in the U.S. When we finally got to the shop after a very long walk (that looked deceptively manageable on the map), we rewarded ourselves by purchasing one of everything. The chocolatier, Robert Linxe, got great press even on our side of the ocean and we were determined to make our first visit memorable. We first discovered La Maison du Chocolat as a young girl who pilgrimaged to Paris for culinary enlightenment.
La Maison Du Chocolat Pâtes De Fruits: A Fruit in Every Pâte Winning the ribbon: Are there better pate de fruits in the world? Maybe, but we’re happy to stop right here. Photo
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