On the other hand, “opening up very large cans of worms” is a tad long and not portentous enough by half to use as a title for a category, and “digressions” is so 20th century.

For what it’s worth, the official description of my Madeleines category follows: In “Remembrance Of Things Past,” Prout’s memory is triggered by a madeleine cake. On occasion, I find nuggets in books, music, videos, TV, or theater that perform a comparable kind of magic, revealing something beyond their own content. (BTW, I used the correct title for Proust’s book, “In Search of Lost Time,” for about a month. Almost no one recognized it, and some folks, when they were given the reference, were downright offended. Go figure.)

And, I’ll point out that I offer not only madeleines but also Hong Kong egg cakes (Hong Kong Egg Cakes From Reading Calvin Trillin’s About Alice) based on
Trillin’s mention in his book, Family Man, of “… Hong Kong egg cakes – delicacies whose taste I [Calvin Trillin] once described as what a madeleine would taste like if the French really understood such things.”

In any case, I can’t help but be enchanted by someone, however madeleine-dismissive she may be, whose blog is studded with almost as many footnotes as my own.