[Sca-cooks] Southern California Chestnut resource?

[Maggie MacDonald]

At 05:47 PM 6/19/01 -0700,lilinah at earthlink.net said something like:

>French. French. French.
>
>Chestnut paste is used in the making of a dessert called a Mont
>Blanc. There's a brand in a can - white with brown chestnuts and
>green leaves on it - i think it's Clement Faugier. Look in the
>gourmet aisle of a good supermarket or in a gourmet shop. Shouldn't
>be that hard to find...
>
>There's a picture of a can on the website in the other messages in
>this thread. But i have found it in my local Safeway on the gourmet
>aisle... well, i used to. Now i only set foot in the place to buy ice
>before events these days. Can't take the canned advertisements they
>pipe through the store constantly.
>
>Anahita
>BTW, where in SoCal are you?

I'm in Chula Vista, south of San Diego. We don't have Safeway here anymore.
I forget if they turned into Vons, Ralph's, or ... what....

The chestnut stuff that the cook needs has to be sugar free, so the
packaged pastes won't work in this particular case.

Again, lets just pray that Magnus' nerves hold out. *eek*

Regards,
Maggie MacD.