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What has 2500 black and yellow balls with silver sparkles, 48 stars measuring two to four meters, 80 animated characters, 100,000 light points, and two miles of light tubes?The Printemps Christmas windows 2008. Printemps has tapped Karl Lagerfeld to decorate some of the windows this year. His theme is an animated marionette named Coco who dresses in a Chanel quilted suit and strolls through a garden with mystical flowers and plants. Hannah Macgibbon, head designer for Chloe,architects Jakob and Macfarlane and furniture designer Herve Van Straeten have also created windows with the theme of earth, air, and fire. There's even some adorable, chic black teddy bears playing in outer space. Printemps 64 Blvd. Haussmann, 9th arr. Metro: Havre Caumartin Tel. 01 42 82 50 00 www.printemps.fr Karl Lagerfeld's Coco marionette I can almost touch my toes in these ridiculously high boots 
I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more. I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Fashion windows have pale skinned mannequins with big teased blonde hair wearing white gowns made of lace and tuile with black satin ribbon trims. There seems to be a Alice in Wonderland theme but the mannequins sure are a far out version of simple Alice trying to find her way.
Galeries Lafayette
I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tourincludes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.
I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
This is the first in a series of posts about Christmas in Paris 2008. La Grand Roue is the giant ferris wheel that towers over the Place Concorde.The views of the city from it are incomparable, with one side facing the Tuileries and the other facing the Champs Elysees. The fluorescent white lights contrasting the black night sky is so dramatic. I love the shot with the obelisk in foreground.
I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tourincludes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.
I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
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boulevard haussmann 8arr
Please Note: Please read the very funny story I wrote about the frustration of banking in Paris. It starts off with "I started screaming New York -style obscenities" Thanks to Lauren Elkinfor accepting my story and editing it.
I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tourincludes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.
I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
I recently met Charlotte Puckette through a mutual friend and we co-lead a food tour of the Place Aligre market. Charlotte is a chef and caterer and the author of The Ethnic Paris Cookbook. Since I was also a chef and caterer in New York before I moved here, I thought it would be interesting to hear her story, and curious to see if it was similar to mine. Charlotte still has her charming southern drawl when she speaks English and I liked her warm, easygoing personality right away. Charlotte was born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina. Her first major adventure abroad was moving to Uganda in 1990 and setting up a computer system for the Ministry of Health. Uganda at the time was a very hard and dangerous place to live in and there wasn't much for Charlotte to do outside of her work. She couldn't find any suitable food to eat, so out of survival she started to buy raw ingredients and concoct different dishes. This sparked her interest in cooking and she moved to Paris in 1993 and enrolled in the Cordon Bleu cooking school where she learned classic French cooking. She started catering on her own in 1994 and prepared typical French dishes for her clients. Feeling a bit limited and curious at the same time lead her to start experimenting with different cuisines. It wasn't hard to convince her clients to include ethnic food on the menu and she said they were relieved that finally somebody was offering something different and refreshing other than the same old traditional French cuisine. She believes the key to her success is the homemade feel to her cooking, emphasizing texture and flavor rather than perfect looking but boring tasting food. Charlotte came up with the idea for an ethnic cookbook a few years ago with a food writer friend Olivia Kiang- Snaije, when she realized there were no cookbooks in English that had any information about the rich, unexplored ethnic cuisine of Paris. She wanted to expose people to a whole other side of French cooking other than the half dozen or so dishes that most typical restaurants served and felt people were really missing out on an essential part of the food map of the city. More than a cookbook, her goal was to provide a guide book of the best ethnic restaurants in the city along with the top recipes from each one, market stores and stands, and neighborhoods. Her favorite places to shop are Chinatown in the 13th arr, Marche Aligre, the Belleville market,and the West African, Guadeloupe and Martinique markets near Chateau Rouge in the 10th arr. Favorite specific shops include a Lebanese grocery shop in the 15th arr. Le Delice d'Orient , 52 Ave. Emile Zola, and a Japanese market Kioko, 46 rue des Petites Champs, 2nd arr. I love asking this question on my interviews and thought it was a most appropriate one for Charlotte: What are your three must have foods if you were on a desert island? Charlotte laughed and said Manchego cheese, chewy bread, and white or red Burgundy wine. Charlotte's biggest cooking influences come from traveling all over the world and discovering different cuisines rather than specific chefs or cooking styles. When asked what was her biggest triumph and the biggest disaster of her career, she immediately said the cookbook for the first part of the question and for the second, told me an all too familiar story that brought back painful memories of my own catering business.At a Christmas eve dinner for 40 a few years back, she watched in horror as her client dropped a whole poached salmon on the floor while carrying it to the table. Charlotte told her to leave the room immediately and frantically called two waiters to help her put back the pieces of the salmon back together a-la-Humpty Dumpty before her 20 seconds were up (there's a code in catering industry called the 20 second rule, where if you drop something on the floor and you pick it up in twenty seconds, it's still acceptable to serve). Charlotte and I did have a lot in common regarding our food careers but I never wrote a cookbook. In fact, she is working on another cookbook idea, so hopefully we won't have to wait long for another gem. I got along so well with Charlotte that we decided we to collaborate on food market tours followed by cooking lessons.The idea is that I will take people food shopping for ingredients in the morning at a local food market and afterwards Charlotte will assist clients in preparing a delicious lunch. I will officially announce and offer the tours in early 2009. To order The Ethnic Paris Cookbook in the U.S. click here To order in France click here
I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more. I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Here's the menu: I can wait to eat all this yummy food. My former French teacher Luc Georges, who still gives lessons in New York, sent out this email last year with a French Thanksgivng vocabulary list. Here it is again. Have a wonderful and joyous Thanksgiving and be thankful for what you have and for your family and friends.
French Thanksgiving Vocabulary
I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more. I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Les Canaux de La Mode
I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tourincludes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.
I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Meredith Mullins is an internationally exhibited American photographer, currently living in Paris. Visit www.meredithmullins.artspan.com to see more of the Paris images. Her award-winning book, In A Paris Moment (click here to order), and her 2009 Paris Calendar can be ordered online or in bookstores throughout the U.S. Original photographs are available directly through the artist. Meredith will be teaching photography workshops in December 2008 and in 2009. Please contact her for information at meredith@redshift.com.
I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more. I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
When I met Richard at Les Diables au Thym, a waitress immediately asked to take my coat and handed me a menu where I was confronted with a myriad of choices, each better than the next. I finally decided on a mushroom and chestnut soup to start and the foie gras appetizer as a main course, and we ordered a pitcher of the house red wine to share. The wine was the only disappointment of the entire meal: a bit too acidic, even when we left it to breathe. The waitress informed us right away that the kitchen was behind and that our food would take some time to arrive, which was a welcome change from staff that often keep you guessing about what happened to your order. However, in the end, the first course came quite quickly, and we finished nearly as fast. The soup was hearty and flavorful: the distinct tastes and textures of the chestnuts and mushrooms shone through and played well off one another. The combination was one that I never would have considered, but I was pleasantly surprised. When the waitress cleared my empty bowl, I waited in anticipation for the next course. Foie gras is always delicious, and the one at Les Diables au Thym was no exception. It was served with homemade bread filled with raisins, nuts and whole grains, but it was also quite yummy served on the crusty white baguette that was at the table. Richard and I decided to share a dessert, and it being fall, we settled on the pumpkin cake. For lack of a better word, I have never tasted anything so pumpkiny in my whole life: it was like the concentrated essence of the quintessential fall gourd, infused with a sweet, caramel syrup that made the entire thing incredibly moist and tasty. We cleared our plate with no problem, even after the two courses we had already finished. Les Diables au Thym may not have the typical Paris décor and atmosphere, but after a year and a half living here, I have to say that, for me, it was a welcome change and one that I look forward to experiencing again.
Les Diables au Thym
Emily Monaco is an American student/expat from New York who has
(hopefully permanently) moved to Paris. She spends her time in Paris
seeking out artsy movie theaters, eating in amazing restaurants and
trying to figure out how to use the Vélib.
I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tourincludes many of the places I have written about including small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.
I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
I was lucky enough to gain access to the lobby(meaning i snuck in when I saw somebody enter the lobby door without a code) and took photos of the still intact deco carpet and stained glass window illuminating the stairwell.
6 rue Rene Goujon, 8th arr.
I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tourincludes many of the places I have written about including small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.
I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
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