Category: Paris
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My Paris-and-tea-cup themed birthday cake
I don’t like surprises. So when a milestone birthday of mine was approaching, I told my husband what I wanted as my gift. A cake. No jewelry, no flowers. No surprise party. Definitely, no surprise party. Just a cake. Is this a test, he asked me in disbelief, was I going to be disappointed if I…
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Dorie Greenspan’s Tiger tea cakes
Hello readers, it’s been a while. Longer than I realized, in fact, and part of the reason for that is that I’m on a serious diet. After several months of illness, and being stuck at the same weight for more than a year, I decided to do something to lose the rest of my baby…
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Chocolate and Zucchini’s chocolate-dipped hazelnut marbles
Pressed for a last-minute sweet for dinner guests, after my macarons failed miserably, I turned to my copy of “Chocolate & Zucchini: Daily Adventures in a Parisian kitchen.” Penned by food blogger extraordinaire Clotilde Dusoulier, I read this book cover-to-cover on a train ride from Paris to Amsterdam. It holds a special place in…
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Is the French cafe on its way out?
“The bar of a cafe is the parliament of the people,” Honoré de Balzac once wrote. First it was the outdoor smoking ban, and now this: The New York Times is reporting that “Across France, Cafe Owners are Suffering.” According to the New Times, had 200,000 cafes in 1960 and now it has fewer…