![]() ![]() ![]() The taste was that of the little piece of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray my aunt Léonie used to give me.” ![]() He goes on, saying, “And suddenly the memory revealed itself. “No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me,” he says. Having done so, he begins to remember snatches of his childhood spent in the countryside. In a famous scene from the French novel In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, the narrating character takes a bite out of a madeleine (a small, traditional French sponge cake) that he had previously dunked in a little tea. Share on Pinterest We rely on our ability to orient ourselves in space, but what do our guts have to do with it? ![]()
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