| | I can't wait to see you all and say 'Bonjour!' tomorrow night at the fifth annual "Cookbook Social. " It's a great gathering of authors and friends celebrating our craft through words and pictures. We'll have lots of new books to share and tastes from all the authors. See you there! We’ll always have Paris... continued! Wow, this city is a stunner. That's not news to anyone who's been here, seen it in movies, or received glossy postcards (does anyone still send postcards?). But it's just so damn perfect. The buildings are typically five stories tall and strategically laid out on the Haussmann grid, along grand boulevards and enormous traffic circles. We walked through the courtyard of the Louvre fifty times in our five weeks--and stopped in awe every time. Who builds buildings like this? Oh yeah, kings and queens do and maybe even an emperor or two. Speaking of emperors, Napoleon still dominates the landscape from his tomb at Les Invalides to the Arc de Triumph, a small (ha!) celebration of victory over the Austrians and Russians. On more than one occasion, I even heard his name used by wide-eyed, salivating American tourists ordering what the French consider 'mille feuille' but we consider 'Napoleons'-- thick with vanilla pastry cream and layered with a 'thousand' layers of puff pastry. And yes, they were quickly corrected by unimpressed pastry shop workers. Jackie and I ended up on this fantasy trip through a bit of serendipity. A sweet man, and a dear friend of the Pike Place Market named Bob Crosby...(cont.) » Read more about Tom's trip here! Share & Comment: | | | |
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