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Showing posts with label incontournables. Show all posts
Showing posts with label incontournables. Show all posts
Monday, October 26, 2009
At the Salon du Chocolat, Leonidas made this huge chocolatey homage... 
To the Paris Opera.
If I didn't look at all this chocolate in an abstract way my goose would surely be cooked. And I would weigh in at 500 pounds as some readers have suggested...ahem
The first week in Paris your eyes are glued to the patisserie vitrines (windows). Then they start to wonder up above to the amazing architecture...
No wonder Parisien chocolatiers and patissieres are strongly influenced by the aesthetics of their surroundings.
Is it possible not to soak this up and then recreate it into chocolate walls and bricks of great beauty ?
OK, they should have tried harder to show off their asthetic heritage - this purveyor is from the sticks obviously...
The magnificent of scale, the grandeur of Paris...
La Maison du chocolat knows how to translate it with style and genius.
Sigh...
Yum...
So lovely...
Very lovely indeed...
Is there another place on the planet that combines beautiful architecture...
And beautiful pastry? I think not...
When I got home I found the perfect homage to both sent me by designer Susan Hockbaum. Susan had the wherewithal to take Paris pastries outside and shoot them amidst the architecture."In Paris, everything looks like dessert." BONJOUR PARIS MONUMENTS!!!
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
L'Arc de Triomphe 75008, original art, 5" x 7"More on Paris' "incontournables"...
Those fabulous not-to-be-missed monuments of Paris!
I'm feeling like Paris "is my oyster" this trip...
Just one step out the door and there will be SO MUCH TO SEE! ! !
It won't be just cakes and cookies on this trip!
Rick's "Walking Man" turns up in the background in his wonderful cafe Le Select drawings... 
I've got a new theme song...It was blasting out of the all night fruit stand last Saturday night...
Have you heard Jordan Sparks ONE STEP AT A TIME?
I'll try to remember some of the lyrics when out and about walking all over Paris NEXT WEEK!!!
Hurry up and wait
So close, but so far away...
There's no need to rush
It's gonna happen and it's
Supposed to happen and we
Find the reasons why
One step at a timeBONJOUR ONE STEP AT A TIME!!!!
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