Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Use photos like these to illustrate Georgetown, transit and excitement. (For people interested in thinking about these kinds of issues, see the discussion on "Community Branding, Image Development and Advertising" starting on page 35 in the commercial district revitalization framework report I helped produce for Cambridge Maryland.) Glimpsed: Meli Patisserie & Bistro. (Baltimore Sun photo...
Paris Breakfasts (Free subscription) | yesterday
The plat du jour is- THANKS! Thank you PB readers for making 2009 an amazing year!!! Have a lovely Thanksgiving Carolg This feed contains copyrighted photos and text from http://www.parisbreakfast.com. If you are not reading this material in a feeds aggregator or by e-mail subscription, the site you are viewing may be guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact carol(dot)gillott(at)verizon(dot)net....
Dessert First (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Happy Thanksgiving to all! This is just a short update since I'm in Kansas about to celebrate the holiday with the family of the boyfriend. I just wanted to share a little concoction I whipped up before I left, while...
Diary of Lisa Taylor, reluctantly 4 (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
So, I'm angry all the time that I have no time due to work stress. Or one person at said work stress to be more precise. And so it is that I get a call from a good friend to inform me of the death 2 days prior of another friend, though one I have not been in touch with or met in the last 3 years at least due to just not having enough time. Well, it's not like he's been in touch either so am not feeling...
Ed Levine Eats (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
A little Serious Eats Thanksgiving nostalgia: Ed's favorite pies, circa 2007—a roundup he likes to refer to as his "Pie Heaven." In the Promised Land: Two Little Red Hens, Clinton Street Baking Company, Sweet Melissa's, Trois Pommes Patisserie, and...
Paris Breakfasts (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
This is an organically-grown, free-range, antibiotic-free, grass-eating turkey( dinde ) in case you were wondering... And he will be a guest, not dinner at this table. They will have Tofurkey with Sweets and cranberries from VT . Hey this is a French bio -dinner. These folks live at the Musée Des Arts Décoratifs , so they can do what they want. BONJOUR THANKSGIVING! This feed contains...
Ed Levine Eats (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
[Photo: Carey Jones] It was just over a year ago that one commenter asked where to get a morning bun in New York; ever since then, I've been on the lookout. And this morning, I finally spotted one worth...
some like it haute (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
I know what you must be thinking, how much pastries can one person in a week?! Too many, I admit. And this will thankfully be the last post on pastries. In Tokyo, at least. The one patisserie that I wanted to try out was Pastisserie at Takashimaya Times Square. Whenever I descended into the food basement (which was pretty darn often), I would be greeted by perfectly-coiffed pastries sitting pretty...
Ooh, Look... (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Here are some more of Adriano Zumbo's Summer collection . They weren't in the store when I got my first fix, but one of the benefits of living local is being able to drop into the patisserie when the mood strikes. And it strikes, oh, a couple of times a week... First, we have 'Alessia, I like big buns' . I saw this on the Zumbo description sheet and was fascinated by the name most of all, then by the...
Paris Breakfasts (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Cranberries - bet you thought we owned them. Nope these were shot in Paris. Imported from Vermont? Leeks / poireaux are definitely a Frenchie veggie - they own this one. And marrons /chestnuts. Oui ! Soupe de marrons ...oui aussi . Recette de soupe de Potiron /pumpkin- regarde ! Photo from l'Internaut So here's the Paris Fall story/ histoire d'automne ... I was in a Paris mall and asked Anne , "what...
Pillow Talk with Bangsar-bAbE (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Despite big cake brands like Secret Recipe and La Manila dominating the food industry, I noticed a steady growth of cake-shops-cum-cafes, often in upscale residential neighbourhoods. Most of these cake shops are inspired by French patisseries , especially the ones in Hartamas and Mon’t Kiara. Patisserie Rui, located at Mt Kiara Meridin is one of them. Spot Rebecca! > P Becky texted me during...
Click opera (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
I used to do travelogue podcasts fairly regularly. They're collected here , but there hasn't been a new one since January 2007, because the recorder I used to use stopped working. But in Warsaw I made a nice big juicy long one in which I rave about the city's Stalinist architecture, interview my fellow artistes at the Song Is You festival, look at some art, throw some bouncy balls down a street, get...
Eater SF (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Hot off the always-churning rumor mill comes rumblings that Miette Patisserie will be shuttering two of its San Francisco retail shops at the end of 2009. The Ferry Building outpost will stay in place, and don't forget that Miette's big...
Cafe Fashionista (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
I was given a task back in the first grade. At the mere age of six or seven, I, along with my classmates, was instructed by my somewhat feared teacher Miss Cullen to draw a picture of a place I wanted to visit more than any other. There were two ground rules: one, we could not select another planet; two, it had to be outside of the United States. Given my frequent viewings of Superman , and adoring...
Paris Breakfasts (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
In Paris I spotted a new book on Italian-born "French" fashion illustrator René Gruau ( 1909-2004). Did you watch the 2009 American Music Awards Last night. No color to speak of. Even crazy Lady Gaga didn't put her red on... In the '50s and 60's Rene Gruau waved his red wand and did wonders for Dior, Balmain, Lanvin, the Lido, Moulin Rouge, Vogue , Harper's Bazaar.. Fabulous line drawing...
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