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A buttery shell-shaped cookie that hijacked an entire novel and rewired how we remember.
Proust's biteOne dunked crumb launched 4,000 pages of memory
Shell shapeBaked in scalloped molds mimicking seashells
Cake or cookieLegally a sponge cake, eaten like one
The humpA cold-then-hot oven creates the signature bump
Lorraine rootsNamed after a real 18th-century French maid