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BASTILLE DAY NYC 2011!

Yesterday was BASTILLE DAY NYC 2011 and yours truly was there bien sur.

MACARONS made a major showing this year!!

Mad MacNYC always has the best deals - I bought a whole flat of 48 macarons for RESEARCH PURPOSES! I am about to MAKE MACARONS chez moi PBers!
It's true.
Pls. pray for moi I'm begging you.
This will be way harder than resolving FACEBOOK.
FACEBOOK CONTEST WINNERS will be announced TOMORROW!

MacarOn Cafe was there....

With a huge number of flavors...

Even Patisserie Poupon from Baltimore showed up with 6 macs for $6. Financier did not bring their macarons - I don't know why?

Remember dear Bosie Tea Parlor - they had macarons.

It was TARTE City.

Financier's tarte au framboise pistache...

Neck-and-neck competition from Payard Bakery's tarte au fraise...

Plus lecons how-to-eat-a-tarte au fraise...

Regarde!

A kind of Ispahan macaron from Patisserie Poupon!

Will even PIERRE HERME be coming to NYC soon and show up at annual Bastille day?

This year's Bastille was more Frenchie and less quelle ordinaire street fair stuff. Ode a la Rose is brand new - a kind of Au Nom de la Rose for New York with lovely bouquets.

Wines of Provence had fabulous pink color swatches to match all these varieties of Rose - the only wine Parisians like to drink in summertime...

Le Palais des Thes gave out free tastes of tea.

I LOVE Les Caneles de Celine's lime caneles (lemon and pistache too) and tiny pistache financier- so crispy.

I hope she opens a shop soon but you can order online...

Bien sur there were savory things to eat like merguez and this tomato tarte..

PLEASE come next year to New York's Bastille day!

THANK YOU PBers for all your GREAT FB suggestions!

I'll announce the winners tomorrow.

BONJOUR BASTILLE DAY NYC 2011

Bonjour Paris!

A quickie post from Paris!!

I overslept!

I can't see straight either - a bit fuzzy here...

And I'm running to the St.-Germain piscine.

Now AirFrance shows you your arrival in Paris from a camera on top of the plane (too much information in my humble opinion) but the ride over on a 380 Airbus was smooth as silk if sleepless...

I reccommend highly taking the Roissey bus into Paris (Opera)...

You'll get acclimated more quickly and you'll catch up on sleep you missed the plane ride over. *Must remember to prep pre-trip next time by sleeping upright in a chair the night before...

First goofy French stuff seen immediately upon exiting the bus at Opera...

The first amazing pastry I bought at Lenotre (spotted when exiting the Ecole Militaire metro). Disasterously ruined by bad packing malheureusement...

First Metro.

Excellent lunch at the Canteen downstairs at Merci...

First Eiffel Tower (seen on a cup on rue Jacob)

A quick whirl around the new FAB Left Bank Hermes (more to come...)

Vitrine at Pierre Herme.

Tomorrow is MACARON DAY!!!

It's always Spring at Au Nom de la Rose on rue Cler....

Patisserier Gerard Mulot is ready for Spring - but it's raining and I left my umbrella at home.

Yellow duckies at Bonton...

Stripes as always at St. James...

Older French Girls wearing RED shoes (as always)

BEAR (who I almost left sitting on the living room couch (eeek) is already bear shopping...

BONJOUR PARIS!

Other People's Printemps

Printemp Paris Rose Teapot, watercolor at Etsy, 9" x 11"

Some people are madly searching for signs of Spring.

Some people have had to look in other people's backyards since Spring is rather reluctant to show up on the East Coast.

I got this glass teapot in Paris at Les Comptoirs Richard and it makes an awfully nice vase in a pinch don't ya think?

Do you know Manon 21?
Well you should! Even though this is an older photo, Manon does divinely poetic French posts.
SVP do drop in.

Heather lives in Paris and has lots of 'Paris Secrets' to tell.
Including that the daffs are out in the parc! Fancy that. Wonder what the French word for daffodil can be?

Watercolorist Sue of A Brush With Color does the best arrangements and these are from her garden. Who is not jealouse?

So far Vienna is neck-in-neck with NYC hanging back in the race to Printemps, but Merisi of Vienna has found flowers on teacups which is nearly as good, well almost.

Yellow roses of Ireland are featured at Harpist Amy and you can hear her play exquisitely to bouquets of roses. *Not to be missed!

Walzing around the Marais (in the days when I could walz) I discovered Vertige on 11, rue de Sevigne 75004.

They specialize in featuring mainly greens.

Don't miss their galerie of greenie photos - simply lush.

Meanwhile artist Ian Sidaway is out sketching in his allotment - Lucky Ian!

Here's what I'd like to be wearing if is were Spring/Printemps.

Here's what I'd eat whilst wearing the above pink pull - all springie colored macarons.

MIAM!

BONJOUR Other People's SPRING!

Pastry Sketch Crawl Returns!

Yesterday was major. I got my walking papers to venture back into the Big Apple (with a cane but I'm now allowed to climb up the stairs alternate steps instead of one-step-at-a-time!)

YAHOO