The French & Coca

What is it with the French and our Coca Cola?

I simply don't get why it has such a place of honor on the table like here at Cafe de Flore?



It's ubiquitous - on cafe tables...

Even on cafe table mats?!

While I was having an elegant breakfast at cafe Pouchkine...

French-speaking fellow eaters were imbibing horrid caca 'coca'.

What's up with that?

Eating lunch with Jill/Mad about Macarons at Jean-Paul Hevin, I couldn't help notice an attractive couple drinking coca with their lunch! OUCH et yuck.

No wonder French wines are suffering...

Can you imagine my shock to see French sandwiches wrapped in coca-cola bags...

Then put into Coca-Cola carrier bags :O

And worse news yet:

French Girl has mini cans in her fridge. Does it get any worse than this? I ask you. What can we do as Americans to stop this heresy? The French are NOT perfect!!

Au Revoir Coca!!!

R U in Paris?

You could imagine looking at this photo, that you're in Paris...
This one too...

Mais non PBers, you're looking at a video in Barney's window honoring Vogue editor, Carine Roitfeld on Madison Ave...
Is this waiter (oogling a passing Parisienne) in a Paris resto?

Mais non encore! This is Rue 57, a New York Parisienne brasserie that serves sushi as well as croissants...hmmm

Is this a French petit gosse/little kid clutching his 'doudou'?

Like this kid on rue de Rivoli..? Non way.

New York has been invaded by the fashion types for FASHION WEEK - you can spot them by their big hair, big shoes and big cameras. Oh and they'll be eating the requisite hot dog.

More BIG shoes entering Bergdorfs...

Whoops - No way R U in Paris PBers.

Did you read Elaine Sciolino (of La Seduction) and her weekend story on the French and their addiction to short skirts?

'And I know no French woman in Paris who wears jogging shoes and carries her dress shoes en route to work.'

Only in New York do gigantic dogs roam the streets...

Does this look like Paris?

It surely tasted like Paris - pistache macaron with framboise + pistache ice cream sandwiched inside ($5) YUM/ MIAM!!

Merci M. Francoise Payard. You hit the nail sur la tete.

BONNE JOURNEE PBers!

I must book my ticket TODAY!

Breakfast in Paris

I would so LOVE to have breakfast in Paris this morning. Bear agrees. Bear suggested rue Royal. He's good at suggestions.

Tea seems very appealing this morning.

Although we'd both happily settle.

For a lesser venue if need be.

Bear does insist on his hot cuppa at cafe Le Select.

My first day in Paris, I had a lot of breakfasts.

Then I wised up and started shooting other people's breakfasts.

Their leftovers look good don't they? As still lifes I mean bien sur.

Even if I don't smoke or drink coffee.

I would so love to be in this Parisien's shoes.

Wouldn't you?

Yesterday my computer BLEW UP!

The inside of my head looks a lot like this.
The good news is I had to clean up my studio to find stuff.I haven't seen this bare table in perhaps years.

I had to clean up the back wall recently for a video conference with an overseas client.

"Necessity is the mother of invention"

Fortunately I'd already bought my ticket to Paris, the day before the computer died. I had to go buy a replacement.

Otherwise qui sait?

Come mid-October I will be leche le vitrine/licking the windows in Paris.

Then I will have a REAL Paris breakfast.

Meanwhile I have a big learning curve in front of me -

Windows 7

But I do have a clean studio to show for it all

One must look on the bright side of things right?

Doodly-doodly-do

BONJOUR PBers!

Paris Promenade

What are YOU doing this Labor Day week-end?
Shall we pretend we're in Paris...
And go for a walk/promenade?
Paris Mommy doing 'The Paris Walk'
*Note the long stride and no break at the knee...
Meandering around high heels might be a stretch since Jean-Paul Goude designed them...
Oh the other hand (or foot) shop till you drop?
Oui bien sur!
Merci Soledad for the wonderful illo...
Wanna run to work?
Wait it's Labor Day when we celebrate not working.
Still if it put me in Paris I would RUN!
The march of the poets on the left bank.
I'm game. Are you?
Do you jog?
I do not. But I'm ready if it takes me to les jardins Tuilleries...

'Le dejeuner sur l'herbe' is more my style...

Or a Paris cafe?

Do you love to read maps in Paris? I do....sigh

Shall we just hang out..?

They say it's a good exercise to put yourself in another's shoes.

Oui, YES SVP!

What do they say about browsing Paris pastry shop vitrines..?

JUST DO IT!

If you hear of a rent-a-dog-for-a-walk agency in Paris?

Do tell.

Back to painting cats and dogs in Paris.

BONNE WEEK-END PBers!!!