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Showing posts with label Marais. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marais. Show all posts
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Cheescake and cupcakes... 
What's not to love? 
BUT is this why you come to Paris? 
OUI! If it's BERKO in the Marais at 23 rue Rambuteau 75004 
I'm not even a cupcake person but... 
These little minis are soooo enticing. 
Now Berko has long rectangular tartes in citron meringue too... 
What to get? The citron meringue mini cuppie? Which one would you fall for? 
OR the long tarte thing? The tarte thing won out bien sur - more lemon meringue to love. It was just as good as it looks, maybe even better. Note the pecan tartes behind and it ain't even Thanksgiving!? 
Berko has new little mini round tartes too... 
I thoughtfully waited until after lunch before showing you these... BONJOUR BERKO!
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Just desserts today. And what incredible desserts they are!
PAIN DE SUCRE in the Marais only creates the unexpected.
PAIN DE SUCRE in the Marais only creates the unexpected.
They have a strong sense of pastry geometry too - one of my passions.And they LOVE the SQUARE!
Of course marshmallows/guimauve are normally square..but in flavors of green Matcha tea or Orange flower or saffron..?
This is unexpected.
Pastry chefs, Didier Mathray & Nathalie Robert take the everyday Provencal almond-paste delicacy called a "calisson" and make it square with added candied oranges.
Look at this absolutely perfect raspberry squared tarte! Their fruits are the best to be had too.
More perfect squares of deliciousness...
AH HA! Now these squares begin to look a bit like Sicilian pizza non?
Like tomato with Rosemary popping out of it!
And here sliced figs with more Rosemary! Extraordinary don't you agree?
Recently a reader wrote that she'd hung around Paris Breakfasts for a month and thought there must be more to Paris than "LOLLIES IN SHOPS".
Recently a reader wrote that she'd hung around Paris Breakfasts for a month and thought there must be more to Paris than "LOLLIES IN SHOPS".
She was moving on.
But she promised to come back in a month to see if I had moved on from "LOLLIES IN SHOP".
I looked it up - a mostly New Zealand expression for lollie pops in candy shops.
Some of the most creative artists on the planet are creating exceptional lollies in shops. And PAIN DE SUCRE is one of them along with Pierre Herme and Gerard Mulot and...and...and...
See! PAIN DE SUCRE can do beautiful, surprising round pastries too...Do you think I should move on?
Shall we take a vote?
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Do you believe in synchronicity?Or "meaningful coincidences," as Jung calls it...
Just before I left for Paris I was rushing to finish a menu illustration full of bears...
The apartment I rented in the Marais was on rue aux Ours (BEAR street), pronounced, ru Oh-Zores... I still can't pronounce it! 
My first day in Paris I met Jette from Denmark in the street...
And don't you know she's writing and illustrating a book about Polar bears! So naturally I kept seeing more BEARS EVERYWHERE!
This poster in the Metro was unavoidable.
And a 5-minute walk from my apartment was this wonderful specialty boutique, L'Ours du Marais on 18, rue Pavee, 75004. They sell ONLY BEARS of course.
They have tons of these Russian carved wooden bears from the town of Bogorodskoye.
Plus all manner of silly out-fitted teddy bears or nounours....
Bear stamps, bear tins, bear T-shirts...it goes on and on.
Plenty of bear china too. I was looking for a GREEN bear for my cousin Louise, but that was the ONE bear they didn't have...
Today I found among my photos these marshmallow bears or les nounours a la guimauve from La Mere du Famille.
Just before I left for Paris I was rushing to finish a menu illustration full of bears...
The apartment I rented in the Marais was on rue aux Ours (BEAR street), pronounced, ru Oh-Zores... I still can't pronounce it! 
My first day in Paris I met Jette from Denmark in the street... And don't you know she's writing and illustrating a book about Polar bears! So naturally I kept seeing more BEARS EVERYWHERE! This poster in the Metro was unavoidable. And a 5-minute walk from my apartment was this wonderful specialty boutique, L'Ours du Marais on 18, rue Pavee, 75004. They sell ONLY BEARS of course. They have tons of these Russian carved wooden bears from the town of Bogorodskoye. Plus all manner of silly out-fitted teddy bears or nounours....Bear stamps, bear tins, bear T-shirts...it goes on and on.Plenty of bear china too. I was looking for a GREEN bear for my cousin Louise, but that was the ONE bear they didn't have...Today I found among my photos these marshmallow bears or les nounours a la guimauve from La Mere du Famille. Isn't that synchronicity?
Hi Jette!
How are your bears doing? :)
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