Praline Vendor

ID: 893 ~ Source: Courtesy of Vorhoff Library and Newcomb Archives, Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, Tulane University.

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The praline women were so iconic that artists created numerous interpretations of them. Such paintings and sketches depict the vendors sporting a tignon and long skirts with her pralines in a basket.

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Praline or "Pecan Candy"

By Chanda M. Nunez

Pralines are thought to have originated in seventeenth-century France when the chef of César, Duc de Choiseul, Comte du Plessis-Praslin coated almonds with sugar. While sugared nuts were already enjoyed throughout the world, the candy termed…