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. Bipartisan Policy Center. Currently, Marron is a visiting professor at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute in Washington DC<br> He also served as an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business from 1994 to 1998. Marron is currently director of the Urban Institute-Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center. Marron has written on a broad range of topics, including tax policy, intellectual property, and energy and environmental policy. Marron graduated from Harvard College, summa cum laude in Mathematics, in 1987. He then attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving a Ph.D. in Economics, 1994. Donald B. Marron