There is a classic American quality to Lillian Maremont’s childhood. Both parents were excellent home cooks. “When I was a baby, my father had a small diner in Pasadena where he made his chili and potato salad and other family specialties he was known for. We didn’t eat fancy, but we ate really great home cooked food.”
Lillian describes her mother as a wonderful cook. ”When my sister and I would come home from school for lunch and neared our house, we could smell her bread baking.”
So for Lillian, the kitchen and cooking were loaded with pleasant associations and were comforting during difficult times. On the weekend of President Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, when everyone was glued to the television watching that terrible tragedy, she retreated to the kitchen and took comfort in playing with chocolate. With the TV on next to the stove, she cooked. “We had invited friends to dinner that Saturday night, and we decided to go through with it, because we all wanted to be together.”
At that dinner Lillian served profiteroles with her fudge sauce, and the recipe is now on her website to commemorate that night.
Lillian’s love of dark chocolate was not typical at the time. “In the 60’s chocolate meant milk chocolate. In cookbooks then everything had corn syrup. That was too sweet for me, so I made my own recipe.”
As time went on, she frequently donated her homemade fudge sauce to school and community events. “People would call me weeks in advance to reserve their jars of it. So I decided this must be pretty good stuff!”
Over the years she never gave out the recipe. Some day, she thought, she would put the fudge sauce on the market. The tragedy of September 11, 2001 was a turning point for her. “My family was grown up, and I had had a successful corporate career and consulting practice. I decided it was time for me to follow my passion and finally launch my fudge sauce.”
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