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Who’s Who in Food
Culinary Personalities

• Who's Who: P-Q-R • Pace, David E. • Page, Karen • Papin, Denis • Pasteur, Louis • Peanut, Mr. • Pemberton, John S. • Perkins, Edwin E. • Phillipe, Count Odette • Plautus • Plunkett, Roy J. • Post, Charles William • Proust, Joseph-Louis • Proust, Marcel • Prudhomme, Paul • Reese, H. B. • Ritz, Cesar • Rodier, Father Clement • Rohwedder, Otto Frederick

Marcel Proust

(July 10, 1871 - November 18, 1922)

Marcel Proust was a French writer. On January 1, 1909, he ate a piece of tea-soaked toast whose taste caused a flood of childhood memories.

In his 7 volume allegorical novel 'Remembrance of Things Past,' the character Swann has a similar experience when he bites into a lemon cookie (a madelaine) which brings on a similar flood of memories. This is one of the most widely-quoted allusions in literature.