Paris Chocolate Shops for Easter Treats Joyeuses Pâques! When it comes to Easter chocolates in Paris, you can find flying bells, real eggs filled ...
One Day in Paris? Here’s where to start…
Eurostar is running a feature on what to do with one day in Paris, so when they asked me to provide the morning portion of the article, I said, "Bien ...
Jacques Génin Caramels are Like No Other Caramel
Back in 2011, I became friends with the author of a phenomenal Paris pastry blog called Paris Patisseries, a site that reviews pastries from all the ...
What the French do Better than Everyone Else
Baked goods. That's what. More precisely, croissants and pain au chocolats (i.e. square croissant with chocolate). When I first moved to Paris, I ...
Pastry-palooza
I know you’ve probably been losing sleep wondering what pastries I’ve eaten lately. Hold your breath no longer.I had a rough day at work the ...
Louis Vuitton Pastries > Fruit
Part of me wants to give life updates and tell funny stories and write about things that I should be writing about on such a blog as this. But ...
May Day & Pastry-Buying Blackouts
On May 1st, everyone was walking around carrying these tiny packets of flowers:I had no idea why, but EVERYONE had one, so I felt compelled to partake ...
Celebs & Croissant Class!
For the sake of chronological order, let me back up a bit. I had a really awesome Friday a couple weeks ago, the day of the Royal Wedding. ...
Paris Pastry Perils
We all know I came here for the food. Once we can accept that, with full awareness in our hearts, we can together realize that 99% of my posts are ...