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Chocolate Show NY 2011!

You can eat way more chocolate at this years Chocolate Show this weekend (Thursday - Sunday 10 - 6pm Metropolitan Pavillion 125 West 18th Street)

Swedish chocolatier, Fika Choklad NYC is there again...

Plenty of strawberries to dip...

Loads of books on chocolate and pastry...

Learn how to dip a pretzel in chocolate at Cotton Tree Lodge - or go there for a week (in Belize) and make your own chocolate, bean-to-bar.

Deck yourself out in chocolate head to toe...

Get a 6-year-old to show you how to take pictures with your iPod Touch...

Bernachon, Lyon is at the NY show for the first time. You can't even find their bars in Paris except at L'Etoile d'Or. I bought a 'Jour et nuit' bar - a combo of milk on one side and dark on the other...

I bought a Bernachon hazelnut bar too...ahem

Intensely rich chocolate cakes from Portugese Choco Bolo

I rarely eat meat but I sinned and tasted chocolate enrobed bacon from Co.Co.Sala in D.C. - the bacon's saltiness combines perfectly with creamy dark chocolate - delicious!

Fair trade chocolate from Ghana made by Divine. They were at the London chocolate show too.

French chocolatier Pralus was at the show again.

Goodby Nutella. Hello creme de noisette.

Christophe Roussel has boxes and boxes of Paris macarons..

Macarons from Mad MacNYC

And Francois Payard...

Chocolate show specials from Payard

Lots of special xmas gift possibilities at this years chocolate show including exotic teas and spices...

These same charm bracelets at the Paris Salon you make yourself are here.

My haul from yesterday :O

Bonjour Chocolate Show NY 2011!

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!

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.