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Showing posts with label Jean-Paul Hevin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jean-Paul Hevin. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
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I'm on a blue milk jug painting jag...
I got this blue crockery jug at a vintage kitchen shop in the Marais...
Cuisinophilie on 28, rue du Bourg Tibourg
They have a plethora of French blue items...
And they are right nextdoor to Mariage Freres!
Chocolat Marquise de Sevigne is also gaga for true French bleu...
Naturalement chocolatier Jean-Paul Hevin is Parisien King of French Ultramarine bleu!
Jean-Paul Hevin chocolate box, watercolor on Etsy, 9" x 11"
His metal boxes make perfect gifts and last forever true bleu...
Speaking of French bleus - this is me gazing out the living room window wistfully at the junk food/candy store on the corner. I have ventured out to the postbox to mail off your paintings. Fortunately no junk food urges overtook me at the time. Whew!
Not to worry. I booked my seat to Paris/Venice for mid-March yesterday.
One MUST think positive!!
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So everything is coming up roses...or it will be!
BONJOUR FRENCH BLEUS!
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Remember I told you about PB reader, Susanne, who lives in the 7th arrondissement..?
And the glorious views of the Eiffel Tower outside her window..?
Well yesterday I finally did it. I booked my March trip to Paris. And I'll be staying in Susanne's pied-a-terre. This gorgeous hunk of quiche we ate comes from the boulangerie right downstairs by the way.
Susanne has moved on to a tiny village in Vermont (what!?).Yes it's true. I wonder if she's taken her wonderful blue and white treasures with her? Or will I get a chance to paint them...?
Susanne's place is a flea market shoppers dream, in case you didn't already notice....
Shhhhhh!
I took my camera into the loo, so I could show you all the amazing treasures lurking everywhere.
Did I mention that Susanne's place is on the 6th floor?I'm working out as I write this, prepping for climbing those stairs
I expect to collapse regularly into this cafe nearby...
Or this classic bistro - La Fontaine de Mars129, rue St-Dominique
If I get homesick (never happens) there's the cafe Tribecca on rue Cler...
The fleamarket was closing up by the time I got to it but it looked terrific! I have to admit I have never been to rue Cler before.Dommage :(
(ext.3)For some reason I can't explain, I always procrastiinate like crazy booking my Air France ticket. And of course I always lose the AirFrance telephone number so I'm putting it here for next time.
I did a little research and discovered there are like a gazillion chocolatiers in the immediate vicinity of the appartment!WOWZA!
A. Michel Chaudun -149, Rue Université, 75007
B. Le Fleuriste du Chocolat -49, Avenue La Bourdonnais, 75007 C. SAS Chocolaterie De Puyricard - 27, Avenue Rapp, 75007
D. Les Petites Chocolatières - 20, Rue Cler, 75007
J. De Neuville SA - 24, Rue Marbeuf, 75008
I know it's unseemly to say this but I cannot resist,
HOLY CRAP!!!!
I know it's unseemly to say this but I cannot resist,
HOLY CRAP!!!!
It's a very good thing I will have those millions of stairs to walk daily... If YOU have any suggestions of stuff I should do in the 7th do tell S.V.P.!~
BONNE REVE!
Monday, January 12, 2009
Chocolat framboise, J-P Hevin, watercolor, 9" x11"
Time for more Paris desserts, this one by Jean-Paul Hevin.
Eclair-shaped macaron raspberry sandwich cookies from Aux Désirs de Manon in the Marais...
And a distant cousin resides in Fontainebleau....
At FAUCHON a cake with faux macarons...
In the 13th at Ommis Patissier a plenitude of fraises...
Mini fraisier petit fours....
A sliced fraisier at Aux Désirs de Manon....
How about a whole pear/poire tarte anyone?
Eclair-shaped macaron raspberry sandwich cookies from Aux Désirs de Manon in the Marais...
And a distant cousin resides in Fontainebleau....
At FAUCHON a cake with faux macarons...
In the 13th at Ommis Patissier a plenitude of fraises...
Mini fraisier petit fours....
A sliced fraisier at Aux Désirs de Manon....
How about a whole pear/poire tarte anyone?
A must stop at Laduree..?
And a hot chocolate to go with that break-the-post-holiday-regime-piece-of-cake?
And a hot chocolate to go with that break-the-post-holiday-regime-piece-of-cake?~
BON PETIT FOURS!
Friday, July 27, 2007
Sometimes I wish I could spend an entire vacation inside a French supermarket / hypermarche.Or any foreign market for that matter.
I remember hanging out in Tokyo grocery stores for ages...
I brought home this Banania chocolate tin years ago.It's now a "vintage" tin!
I took it to David Dewey's watercolor class when we were doing "yellow"only still lifes...
I took it to David Dewey's watercolor class when we were doing "yellow"only still lifes...
An old "yellow" study - this is from my pre-macarons days...
These French yogart glass jars make perfect water containers.And how often do you see a Vermeer in an American supermarket?
This was formerly a French plastic yogurt container.Plastic is way easier to bring home than glass...
The contents of a tin or box are usually irrelevant to me - I almost always toss them away to lighten the load home.
When I was shoe designing I bought this beautiful tin in London.
Pouring thick, gooey Lyle's Golden Syrup down your hotel bathroom sink is NOT a very good idea.
I love all the animals on European food containers...Do we only get to see animals on "organic" foods in the US?
It's as if the source of the food is irrelevant here :(
I would like to see more cows and goats please...
Aren't these yogurt boxes pretty?And you don't have to read anything to know what's inside.
Here's one container I discovered in the supermarket that I buy to drink while I'm in Paris. It makes a terrific snack after traipsing around all day.
REAL gazpacho from SPAIN!!!
And it tastes EXCELLENT too
And would you believe - Tropicana is the producer!?
Dear Tropicana,
Could you please bring this Spanish gazpacho to New York?
I'd like to buy a ton of it :)
Thursday, June 7, 2007
JPH Berry Tart with spoon, watercolor, 9" x 11"JPH is what I call chocolatier, Jean-Paul Hevin.
Here's the same JPHTartelette aux 4 fruits rouges watercolor without a horizon or table top..
I wish I had one of those voting gizmos...
but tell me anyway which one you prefer.
As part of my hot chocolate research I had to visit JPH's salon de the on 231, rue Honore, right? Here's "the works" - what I ordered.
There is no good reason to put more sugar in your chocolat chaud or hot chocolate that I can think of,
But it does look attractive on the tabletop...
Water, on the other hand, is an ESSENTIAL as a chaser and for reflexions.Preferably Paris Tap natch :)
Un verre d'eau S.V.P...
Un verre d'eau S.V.P...
Here's a ParisBreakfasts secret-
If you go to ANY high-end salon or cafe (Angelina's, Deux Magots, blablabla) you will not be disappointed in the hot chocolate. That's a fact.
But if you go to your corner caf, you will most certainly get hot chocolate made from a packet of something tres ordinaire, like Nesquik or Poulaine + water.
You have been warned.
You have been warned.
JPH's tea salon is upstairs from the chocolate shop.The walls are lined with blowup photos from his new book, Delices de Chocolat.
Some of them, semi-nudes embracing chocolate cakes...ahem
You have been warned.
On your way out there's a display inviting you to treat yourself to a JPH gift box for 147 euros... You have been warned.
The number #1 reason for my visit was to get a shot of JPH's CHOCOLATE CHANDELIER!!!
Don't think you can just waltz in, take a shot and waltz out!
And don't say I didn't warn you...
The best way to sneak that shot is to descend from the tea salon upstairs...Pretty spectacular you have to admit non?
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