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Showing posts with label pastry shop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pastry shop. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
The posh 16th arrondissement is loaded with posh patisseries...
And I've barely set foot in them.
This is pretty tragique - I must make up for this lapse next trip ...
I just happened to walze by Yamazaki Paris enroute to the Musee Marmottan last October on 6 Chaussée Muette 75016 Metro: La Muette
As usual I ran in, stole some shots and ran out safely without tasting a thing. 
Unlike the trecherous Financier Pastries now lining the shelves of my refrigerator. We won't discuss my hips...ahem 
I have much more resistance when in Paris - there's such a wealth of choices. 
You know on the next block or so you'll find something almost as irresistable. Pastry procrastination is easy in Paris. 
New York is not so full of temptation... 
C'est la vie...
I do promise to go inside and EAT something next time!BONJOUR Yamazaki Paris!
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Financier Pastries Petit Fours, watercolor, 9"x 11"
Drinking too much Champagne at a once-a-year tasting is not that big a problem... 
But becoming attached at the hip to a Patisserie with 9 branches just a short train ride away is another matter... 
Dear PBers,I need an intervention...
What started out as mere research for a petit four drawing project...
Has turned into a full-blown obsession. Ouch!
I tell myself I'm buying these delights just to paint them. Ha! They're disappearing faster than I can paint them :(
A few years ago I kept pastry temptation under control easily... 
I only painted miniatures...
Under an inch high. 
Help me PBers.
Years ago I did a portrait business card for Financier's head pastry chef, Eric Bedoucha! Is that why I can't resist his goodies? 
What should I do? Especially since I've not yet tasted "Le Tropical". Who doesn't love passion fruit raise your hand. At least I have a remedy for greediness straight from Paris - Oddibil charcoal tablets are specially created for pastry overeaters. I recommend it highly.
BONJOUR Financier Pastries 2!
Monday, January 26, 2009
I've been trying to visit "Frenchie" cafes every week in New York...
In this case PetalBelle is decidedly Belgian in Soho at 158 Sullivan Street...
Still you can almost see Belgium from France so...
And all the accoutraments are very frenchie to me...
I love the menu writing on the pastry case...
PetalBelle's specialty is the "Liege" waffle or gauffres a rather cakey waffle sold on every street corner back in Liege...
I loved these display still lifes....
So paintable...
There were some French-speaking customers nearby...
Still more perfect still life material....
Floor and chairs and tables get the PB "Frenchie" seal of approval...ahemAtmosphere is EVERYTHING, though the lighting could be gentler in my opinion...
My order - Hot chocolate and the Liege gauffre...
You must bring a book to a place like this...
I brought the perfect book - Judith Jone's THE TENTH MUSE
My order - Hot chocolate and the Liege gauffre...
You must bring a book to a place like this... I brought the perfect book - Judith Jone's THE TENTH MUSEGo on Amazon and read a few pages and you'll be hooked too. Particularly since they feature Judith's exciting youth spent in Paris...
But it's really about the evolution of taste in America (Judith edited Julia Childs, James Beard, Marion Cunningham and many great American cookbook authors). Mainly the Tenth Muse made me think about my own sense of taste...I must be more experimental!
But it's really about the evolution of taste in America (Judith edited Julia Childs, James Beard, Marion Cunningham and many great American cookbook authors). Mainly the Tenth Muse made me think about my own sense of taste...I must be more experimental!
BON LUNDI!
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