Category Archives: Macarons

The Ultimate Vancouver Macaron Showdown: The First of Two New Contenders

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Bel Cafe – When I set out to prepare and write my Ultimate Vancouver Macaron Showdown series of posts, I thought I had all of the major contenders in the city covered. I was unaware that I left out two … Continue reading

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The Ultimate Vancouver Macaron Showdown Part 3: Texture

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continued from part 1, and part 2  – Part 3 – Texture:  Like parts 1 and 2, the five producers are ranked from first to fifth in this comparison. The main factors I considered in comparing the textures of the … Continue reading

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The Ultimate Vancouver Macaron Showdown Part 2: Taste/Flavour

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Part 2 – Taste/Flavour… In case you haven’t read part 1, it is here. Taste/Flavour In a perfect world, I would be able to purchase similarly flavoured macarons from each of the individual producers and do an apples to apples … Continue reading

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The Ultimate Vancouver Macaron Showdown Part 1: Aesthetics

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Part 1 – The Looks… The original plan was for me to review Thierry and Thomas Haas individually before doing a comparison of the five heavyweights of the Vancouver macaron scene. But during my drive to Theirry a few days … Continue reading

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Preview: The Ultimate Vancouver Macaron Showdown

I went out and bought macarons from Thierry, Soirette, Thomas Haas, Faubourg, and French Made Baking today so that I could try them together. Hopefully, after tasting all of them, I’ll be able to crown the current king of macarons … Continue reading

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Mass Appeal 3: Americans love our macarons

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Day 21 – Soirette Macarons & Tea… The preliminary results are in on whether macarons drive more traffic: they don’t. The daily views I get on the two days after I posted about macarons are about the same as the … Continue reading

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Mass Appeal 2: More Macarons

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Day 18: French Made Baking… The jury’s still out on whether using the word ‘macaron’ 83 times in my post yesterday will drive more traffic from search engines but it certainly affected me. It compelled me to drive to French … Continue reading

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Mass Appeal ( cakes, macarons, pastries…how many times can I mention the word macaron ?)

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Day 17 Faubourg Paris… Macarons… I ran across a guide written by a successful food blogger recently that suggested the best way to drive views to a blog is to include a lot of popular keywords. I’m going to experiment … Continue reading

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