The art of pastry//another reason to love Paris

“The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.”
Antonin Carême (1783-1833)
When three food writers come together to discuss the art of Parisian Pastries for an hour, you can bet that most people in the audience will be planning an excursion to the [...]

Fwiends forever.

Can we talk about how awesome and amazing it is to shop for groceries in Paris? It’s a never ending labyrinth of outdoor markets, grocery stores that put anything in the US to shame (holler at me Monoprix), pastisseries, boulangeries, boucheries, frommageries and fruit stands. Phew. I can barely walk the 25 minutes home from [...]

Alright kids…

After spending the last month and a half not writing and convincing myself I had “writers block” (we all know it’s BS), I have to confess that was just an excuse. I have been busy and taken well (almost too well) to the savoir vivre of Parisian life. Somewhere in here I have to find [...]

Eat. Drink. Man. Woman//Week 5 at Le Cordon Bleu

I confess.
I’ve been busying myself with things other than updating you on LCB. Oh but there is so much wine to drink, cocktails bars to try and dinner parties to be thrown when you are surrounded by the young and beautiful boys and gals of Le Cordon Bleu. Did you just want to slap me [...]

In addition to your very fashionable chefs whites…//things you need to bring

Cherrio lasses!
I’ve been getting a lot of questions on whether or not Le Cordon Bleu supplies you with everything you need to ensure a successful tenure as a student. Answers…
- Kitchen shoes: I found it strange that they didn’t come with the uniform so we all had to hike to the kitchen supply store for [...]

Sin is in, Sweetie//Week 4//Le Cordon Bleu

Holleration GG lovers. I’m a week behind on my posts and I’m sorry but I’ve been either drinking wine, smoking cigarettes, talking about boys, trying on clothes or eating ‘k? Sometimes I do all five things at once so it can get a bit messy.
Annnnyways. 
Week four brought on some serious dishes and old-skewl French techniques: [...]

A crab called Wander//Week Three/Le Cordon Bleu

My hands have started to feel the hard work and lack of manicures. They are a bit dry, tend to smell in onions plus I forget to put on my rings and am slowly remembering how to cut my own nails very short. I am also trying to find a cute [...]

LCB vol 2.//Week Two//Paris: The first 100 days

 This doesn’t belong to you. Ne touche pas biatch.

After an information overload and slicin’ ‘n dicin’ through week one, we enter week two of LCB Paris. This week, we look at my K.I.T., the lack of any good looking men at schoo, how to score…a good seat during a Demo class, that is. Plus deconstructing [...]

LCB vol. I//Paris, the first 100 days

I had spent my first week in Paree doing what I always do whenever coming to this side of the world: long lunches, long walks, refusing to wait on long lines for museums, very long dinners and (window) shopping – there is a wonderufl French phrase for this that directly translates to “licking glass”, which [...]

I luf eet//Parisian life vol I.

 
Ciao babies. 
After a long time spent planning, organizing and scheming to get to Paris, I am here. When we last left off, I had told you about my acceptance in to Le Cordon Bleu and my impending move to the City of Le Fooding (Lights? Le Fooding?, same-same). What I didn’t write about was the [...]