Saturday, September 12, 2009

Paris: Butterscotch and other sweets


I think the Paris posts will be winding down soon, but I did want to post this one. Like the video of Tuesday on the Arc, this is another one really aimed at the family - specifically my brother M. who, I know, has a particular interest in Butterscotch the Robot Pony. So - here is a short of Mum enjoying meeting Butterscotch in the Bon Marché.

And as for other sweets - one word: FAUCHON. Fauchon is a gourmet food store - a big, hot pink house of food porn. Mustards, chocolates, pickled beans, coffee - you name it, it's there, all housed in hot pink luxury. We had a very very nice lunch at the Fauchon café (Tui is eating the end of that lunch in the photo), and more importantly, we bought 6 eclairs to take home - also pictured. ( T1, these are for you). Fauchon must have about 20 kinds of eclair to choose from, each one costing the same as two bottles of wine (my new unit of measure). But man, were they worth it. We carefully cut each of the 6 into three pieces, savoured, discussed, debated, and picked our favorites. Which, for me, was pretty much ALL of them.

*sigh*

2 comments:

sugarlove said...

Oh Bunkle, I am weeping WEEPING with the beauty of it all!! I know that they were even more delicious than they were beautiful....

Thank you for posting these images. My imagination will be happily devouring these morsels for the rest of the day... Yum. And more yum. and then some YUM!

Anonymous said...

I love that your mum petted an inanimate object for the best part of a minute :-). I personally would have been petting the eclairs...

grayelf