Marron glacé that a "marron glacé" is a confit marron that is covered in caramel. The 1767 book "L'agronome, ou dictionnaire portatif du cultivateur" claimed that the best marrons came from the Dauphiné region in southeastern France, and contained instructions for preparing marron glacés. Chestnuts are covered with a membrane, known as a pellicle or episperm, which closely adheres to the fruit's flesh and must be removed because of its astringency. Marron nuts have a pellicle which is "superficially attached to the nut", making it easily removable from the fruit. Some chestnuts have two cotyledons usually separated with deep grooves penetrating nearly
Donald B. Marron Jr. was with Congress's Joint Economic Committee from 2002 to 2004, first as the Senate minority's principal economist and later as the committee’s executive director and chief economist. Before his government service, Marron was chief financial officer of a medical software start-up in Austin, Texas and a principal with the Washington, D.C., office of Charles River Associates, where he provided business consulting and litigation support to companies in a variety of industries. He is also President of Marron Economics, LLC, through which he does consulting and public speaking. Marron served as a member of the Debt Reduction Task Force at the