|
|---|
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Yesterday I did one of the bravest acts of my life!Visiting Tehran, Hong Kong, Rio was nothing on this.
I marched up to the perfume display of the new
Les Exclusifs eau de cologne like I owned the place.
And I started spritzing!
And I started spritzing!
They have these sweet logo cards you can spray samples onto.CLICK on this picture and ENHALE!!!
I sprayed my left wrist with 31 RUE CAMBON and my right wrist with EAU DE COLOGNE. Today I can still smell like a divine orchid hot house. I read Luca Turin's reviews of these 6 new fragrances and decided to give it a whirl. His words of praise -the thrill of feminine beauty, the pang of pain and longing
gave me courage. Bravery pays off.
The truth is Kat of K & S wrote me yesterday that she'd taken some pictures of Chanel windows in Japan as requested in August.
I ran to get some more window shots and then I got up the nerve to enter. They were nice as pie to me even though I was wearing my MTA map T-shirt...ahem Afterwards I went in to Bergdorf Goodman's to try more of the new Chanels and they were rather snooty.hmm...
So all over the world in Chanel boutiques pearls are getting dragged on the floor. Don't you love it!
What about these jailbird stripes? Only SONIA RYKIEL can do stripes in my opinion... 
Don't you love their tragic luxe looks? Have they been enhaling too much EAU DE COLOGNE? Did I mention it's $170 a bottle?Les Exclusifs do not show up on Chanel's website.
They are sold only in 11 "doors" they told me at Bergdorfs.
So want to win a box of Laduree Liquorice or rather Les macarons a la Réglisse to match you new black and white Chanel outfit?I dare you to set foot in the nearest Chanel flagship boutique in your town and try on the new colognes! Not fair if you live in Paris or work for Chanel or live in Timbucktoo.
USA only.
You could also make your own Les macarons a la Réglisse
if you visit Pure Gourmandise.com
It helps if you speak a bit of French...
Is this contest for real?
Do you think I have been enhaling too much perfume?
Maybe...try me and see
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
The POMEGRANATES have arrivedHeavens!
It's only September for Gawd's sake
Usually they show up in time for Thankgiving tabletop decorations...
I fell in love with pomegranates in Venice about 4 years ago...So romantic no?
But you don't have to go to Venice to get a pomie.You can go to your unexciting Key Foods market!
They were mad for pomegranates in the 17th century too.And they didn't even know about flavanoids and antioxideants.
I saw this gorgeous painting by Saraceni at the 2003 Natura Morta exhibit in Florence.
These pomies are by Cristoforo Munari.They are sitting beside quinces, which I have yet to try...
In the good old days pomegranetes were symbols of fertility and richness...
This relief is by da Firenze.I don't know why we had to wait 500+ years to wake up to the power of pomegranates?
I woke up 4 years ago and now I never get a winter cold, as long as I down a few seeds (arils) daily.
My family used to say a blessing over the first fruit of spring.Well I'm saying a blessing over Fall's first pomegranates!
While my co-workers are already sniffling and snuffling,
I will be cold-free thanks to the all-mighty Pom.
There's always pomegranate tea if you can't bear the thought of those seeds. Hmmm...
I would love to know
why there are NO POMEGRANATE MACARONS?
Please get a pomegranate and try one!
Please get a pomegranate and try one!
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
I wasn't sure I was going to post today.Being 9/11...
I asked her if I could paint it...
(“Morello cherries in cherry gelée, pistachio gelée, pistachio mascarpone cream”)
My first thoughts were
Tower of power
with a cherry on top!
That's how I felt about the World Trade Towers.
Such a delightful friend in my New York life...
There are so many good memories attached to that building.
I attended, well volunteered to help out at Kevin Zraly's Windows on The World Wine school.
I got to serve the bread rolls, never pour the wine, but I learned so much about wine.
I couldn't wait to attend each class.
Thank you Kevin!
I got to photograph for the Beard House at The Windows on the World restaurant too!
I took trading classes on the 13th floor in building #1,
when I was pretending to be a day trader.
You got to imagine you might make a cool mill someday, especially in that building...
I remember the first time I visited the WTC -
Though I'm afraid of heights, I loved visiting the observation deck.
There too, Milton Glaser created maps at your fingertips.
You gazed out at the spectacular view and
you could look down and identify exactly what you were seeing.
There were free summer dance concerts on the esplanade.
So many things...
Best of all, those buildings were a touchstone for all New Yorkers.
Everywhere you looked, you could see them.
They were our Eiffel Tower.
Can a building be a friend?
I miss you dear friend.
Monday, September 10, 2007
Do you remember biting into your FIRST macaron?
I can't honestly say I do.And it was only a year and half ago or so...
Did lights flash?
Did the earth move?
Granted I have done double duty making up for the years sans(without) macarons...
Before I ever tasted a macaron I remember seeing these cheery colored disks lined up in Angelina's windows
And thinking to myself..
eh?
They looked awfully sweeeeet to me.
That was before I knew better...
Well they are awfully sweeeet but so much more is involved..
Though not if you asked my second cousin K. who lives in Pigalle.
She used to be a oral surgeon and doesn't have much time for macarons.
Chocolat -OUI!
Macarons NON!
Isn't it interesting that macarons are exactly the same shape as the French beret!?
At least my cousin is always wearing a macaron!
Last week Brit in Norway wrote about eating her FIRST macaron...Granted it was a Norwegian macaron...
Does that count?
Since I can't remember my first macaron, I've decided to immortalize Brit's first.
Even if it was Norwegian...
*And Brit has been kind enough to let me use her photos to paint from...
I plan to work more seriously on my macaron expertise next visit to Paris...IN 20 DAYS!!!
Painting them is one thing...
But I would like to become truly discerning about the taste and texture.
I'll be reading as well as tasting and painting.
Not that macs and I aren't already joined at the hip...
Ahem...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
LinkWithin
