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Glancing at the numerous gorgeous pastries in the refrigerated case a few weeks ago at Jean Paul Hevin, I fixed my eyes on the adorable red and green striped mini Buche de Noel and it stared right back at me. I figured this was a no-brainer for my December Parisian Dessert of the Month. This was no traditional or everyday Buche. Its name, Grand Cru, is usually reserved for fine wine.
Filled with praline, chocolate sponge cake, orange and ginger jelly, and chocolate mousse, this was pretty close to an outer body experience. The chocolate mousse so velvety passing the roof of my mouth plus the crunchy praline followed by the tang of ginger made me swoon. Even the sugar icing was delicious and not unbearably sweet. What a way to finish off the year.
Buche Grand Cru comes in three additional sizes to feed 4-6, 6-8, and 8-10 people.
Jean Paul Hevin
231 rue Saint Honoré, 75001
Metro: Concorde
23 bis, Avenue de la Motte-Picquet, 75007
Metro: Ecole Militaire
New Eye Prefer Paris Photos for Sale
I am happy to announce the sale of a new set of prints of my Eye Prefer Paris Photos. I am offering 20 of my most popular and iconic images for sale including my doors, architectural details, statues, and monuments. They will make great gifts for all your Francophile friends, relatives, and colleagues but don't forget to buy some for yourself.
Click here to see photos and for full details including sizes, prices, and shipping. Here is a sample of some of the photos.
New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes
I am happy to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes. Come take an ethnic culinary journey with me and chef and caterer Charlotte Puckette, co-author of the bestseller The Ethnic Paris Cookbook (with Olivia Kiang-Snaije). First we will shop at a Paris green-market for the freshest ingredients and then return to Charlotte's professional kitchen near the Eiffel Tower to cook a three-course lunch. After, we will indulge in the delicious feast we prepared along with hand-selected wines.
Cost: 185 euros per person (about $240)
Time: 9:30AM- 2PM (approximately 4 1/2 hours)
Location: We will meet by a metro station close to the market
Class days: Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday,Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
Minimum of 2 students, maximum 6 students.
Click here to sign up for the next class or for more info.
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.
Tours cost 195 euros for up to 3 people, and 65 euros for each additional person. I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com
Who could ever tire of the magic of Christmas …especially in Paris, with sparkling lights and holiday bûches galore? But, for a vivid change of scene, this Eye Prefer Paris post travels to a French-speaking country of sun and sea, sitting near the girth of the earth.
My journey to Senegal was only seven days, but I came away flooded with faces and colors … and a newly-rooted desire to return and delve deeper into the secrets of the Senegalese life.
Life in Dakar is dusty and sparse in amenities. The city is filled with buildings abandoned in mid-construction, people extending their hands for a way to survive, and a general feeling of disorganization and cacophony. But, despite these challenges, the Senegalese have an enviable confidence and seem to have a genuine inner smile. What is their secret?
Photographing in Senegal is not easy. There have been too many “tourists” who have taken advantage of the kindness of these people. Now, when one raises a camera, many of the locals turn their head, run away, or try to negotiate their image for a fee. But because I am looking for not just a photograph, but a way to get to know these graceful strangers, I try to make a connection. I begin a “conversation” so that a real photograph is encouraged to emerge. I am rewarded with their strong, direct gazes and their complete lack of pretension. No one is trying to impress anyone or to be something that they are not. I love these photographs (and these people) because I feel they are the truth.
Meredith Mullins is an internationally exhibited America photographer and writer who lives in Paris. She is the author of the award-winning book “In A Paris Moment” and an instructor of photography. Upcoming classes include a Holiday Photographic expedition on December 5 and a Words and Images course (writing and photography) beginning on January 16, 2012. For more information on these and other courses, visit www.meredithmullins.artspan.com. Meredith is also available for private photography instruction/exploration in Paris. Sign up for an information-filled, creative lesson! Her original photographs are available directly through the artist. [email protected] or (www.meredithmullins.artspan.com)
New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes
I am happy to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes. Come take an ethnic culinary journey with me and chef and caterer Charlotte Puckette, co-author of the bestseller The Ethnic Paris Cookbook (with Olivia Kiang-Snaije). First we will shop at a Paris green-market for the freshest ingredients and then return to Charlotte's professional kitchen near the Eiffel Tower to cook a three-course lunch. After, we will indulge in the delicious feast we prepared along with hand-selected wines.
Cost: 185 euros per person (about $240)
Time: 9:30AM- 2PM (approximately 4 1/2 hours)
Location: We will meet by a metro station close to the market
Class days: Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday,Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
Minimum of 2 students, maximum 6 students.
Click here to sign up for the next class or for more info.
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.
Tours cost 195 euros for up to 3 people, and 65 euros for each additional person. I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com
For the last Door of the Month for 2011, I have chosen a most special door that I found by accident an unexpected place.
The door is part of the Louvre, so the address above is not exact, just an approximation by Google maps. Given the ornate style of the door with the baby faces embellished with fruit around them and other elements, it is most likely from the mid to late 1800s in the height of the Haussmann building boom near and around the Opera.
93 rue de Rivoli
Metro: Palais Royal- Musée de Louvre
New Eye Prefer Paris Photos for Sale
I am happy to announce the sale of a new set of prints of my Eye Prefer Paris Photos. I am offering 20 of my most popular and iconic images for sale including my doors, architectural details, statues, and monuments. They will make great gifts for all your Francophile friends, relatives, and colleagues but don't forget to buy some for yourself.
Click here to see photos and for full details including sizes, prices, and shipping. Here is a sample of some of the photos.
New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes
I am happy to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes. Come take an ethnic culinary journey with me and chef and caterer Charlotte Puckette, co-author of the bestseller The Ethnic Paris Cookbook (with Olivia Kiang-Snaije). First we will shop at a Paris green-market for the freshest ingredients and then return to Charlotte's professional kitchen near the Eiffel Tower to cook a three-course lunch. After, we will indulge in the delicious feast we prepared along with hand-selected wines.
Cost: 185 euros per person (about $240)
Time: 9:30AM- 2PM (approximately 4 1/2 hours)
Location: We will meet by a metro station close to the market
Class days: Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday,Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
Minimum of 2 students, maximum 6 students.
Click here to sign up for the next class or for more info.
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.
Tours cost 195 euros for up to 3 people, and 65 euros for each additional person. I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com
I wish you a merry and bright Christmas and a wonderful Chanukah.
Vincent and I are preparing Christmas dinner at home for a small group of friends. Here is the menu.
Fois gras with pain d'epice and fig confiture
Sweet potato and pumpkin soup with curry and nutmeg
Lasagna with oyster mushrooms and spinach
Chicken meatballs
Salad of pears and arugula
Buche de Noel
Enjoy the day and I hope you are spending it with family, friends, and loved ones. Be thankful for what you have.
Love, Richard
Our tree
As many of you know, George Whitman of Shakespeare and Company bookshop passed away earlier this week at the ripe age of 98. My friend, writer Michele Kurlander has written a warm and personal profile of the beloved Whitman.
GEORGE WHITMAN IS GONE
George Whitman is dead at the age of 98, and my Paris friends are all planning to join a cortege to his Pere LaChaise funeral this week. I cannot join them, sadly, since I am imprisoned in Chicago by my client obligations and financial circumstances and can’t return to visit Paris until January.
There are many of us to whom George has always been an integral part of Paris - and to whom his death is a tragedy of indescribable proportions, notwithstanding his age and recent stroke and the obvious inevitability.
George arrived in Paris in 1948 and in 1951 he opened the now iconic Shakespeare and Company English language bookstore at 37 rue de la Bucherie - at first named Le Mistral, but later renamed after the famous bookstore that his friend Sylvia Beach had once run on Rue de L’Odeon.
Sylvia mentored and supported the likes of Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce and even published Ulysses when no one else would touch what the world then considered a scandalous book. Like Sylvia, George has always given succor and literary encouragement to writers. He even offered young and impoverished authors a home in the store since he let them sleep on benches and behind bookshelves in exchange for duties such as book shelving, cash register manning and dishwashing - and in exchange for following his rules, which included writing their biographies on a small portable typewriter for his archives, and reading one book a day.
He called them “tumbleweeds” and liked to quote Yeats, who wrote: “Be not inhospitable to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise.”
I, too, was once a momentary “tumbleweed,” though I am a middle age lawyer, only a sometime writer, and not impoverished. Nevertheless, writing is my passion, and, I like to dream that I live in Paris and write full time.
As part of that dream, I walked into Shakespeare & Company one day and, on a whim, asked George if even people my age could stay there. He asked if I was a writer and I demurred and admitted that I was not published. He again asked: “do you write?” Of course I said I did - and spent a night with the current contingent of young and penniless writers in residence there. George actually found a small bed for me (because of my age, I guess) and I was not put to work in the store- but I did have to tap out my biography on that little typewriter and provide a picture for his archives.
My fellow residents taught me how to pitch a small stone at a window to be let into the door after George’s midnight curfew, and I woke the next morning to the hope of a writer’s life and the view of a beautiful new day lighting the turrets of Notre Dame just across a sliver of the River Seine.
I have returned numerous times - not to sleep there, but to see George, to get to know his daughter Sylvia - who returned to him in recent years after growing up in England with her mother (and whose full name is Sylvia Beach Whitman, after guess who?), to attend the Sunday afternoon “tea parties” where locals, tourists, and even the famous gather to eat cookies, share stories, and sip tea served by “tumbleweeds.” One Sunday, I found myself sitting next to George’s good friend, famous San Francisco beat poet Laurence Ferlinghetti.
Sometimes, I attend the Monday night book readings, and sometimes just wander the narrow aisles, pick up a book or two, or sit upstairs in the public “library” to read or write.
Sometimes George didn’t recognize me, and sometimes he said: “OH, there’s the Chicago lawyer.” Sometimes George was cordial, and sometimes..............not so much.
I once tried to purchase a book about Gertrude Stein that George apparently thought should have remained upstairs in the “library” - where books are for customers to read, but are not for sale. It had somehow made its way onto the main floor shelves, and there I was trying to pay for it at the register. “You can’t buy that,” he shouted at me as he tossed the book across the counter. He calmed down when I begged him to let me keep it for just a few days with a promise to return it. We made the deal.
I was standing late one night at the reception area of Hotel Marignan on rue de Sommerard when George walked in to ask if they had a cheap room available. He carried an old torn gym bag, and his hair was flying (probably from his latest “haircut” - with the flame of a candle), and for a moment (until he was recognized) the receptionist recoiled and tried to turn him away. George had that night even given up his own bed above the store to a writer who had arrived unexpectedly.
It was at Shakespeare and Company, in the second floor “library”, where I first met my now great friend, author and Paris historian Thirza Vallois - whose Paris books are not just walking tours but a wealth of historic information.
It was at Shakespeare and Company where I met my friend Jonathon, a young man from Ireland who writes pithy and quirky prose and who worked there for years. Many an evening, I sat near the cash register on a small bench against the shelves and talked literature, Paris, and just stuff with Jonathon. He left Shakespeare a few years ago to get a college education in London, and is now a rare bookseller in Paris.
The day after George’s death, Jonathan e-mailed me that he and 30 others had stood in the cold outside the store to watch as George was carried out, and that as he wrote his e-mail to me he was listening to My Way and tears were running down his face.
I understood the emotion.
I will miss George. We all will.
Michele Kurlander is a 67-year-old Chicago corporate lawyer, writer, small business and women's issues advocate (past president of the Chicago Area Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners) mother of three grown children, and grandma of six. She fell in love with France and all things French many years ago when she first traveled to Europe as the chaperone of a younger cousin in 1967. She travels back to France at least once each year ( often two and three times), whenever her addiction overwhelms her. and keeps up her far from fluent but passable French by reading detective stories by George Simenon about Inspector Maigret. Some of her fondest memories of Paris are (i) sleeping on a bench on the third floor of Shakespeare & Co. one year, and waking to the bells of Notre Dame; (ii) spending her "big" birthdays (50, 60, and 65) in France (the first two entirely in Paris, the most recent both in Paris and in an old stone cottage in a small hamlet in the Aveyron).
New Eye Prefer Paris Photos for Sale
I am happy to announce the sale of a new set of prints of my Eye Prefer Paris Photos. I am offering 20 of my most popular and iconic images for sale including my doors, architectural details, statues, and monuments. They will make great gifts for all your Francophile friends, relatives, and colleagues but don't forget to buy some for yourself.
Click here to see photos and for full details including sizes, prices, and shipping. Here is a sample of some of the photos.
New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes
I am happy to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes. Come take an ethnic culinary journey with me and chef and caterer Charlotte Puckette, co-author of the bestseller The Ethnic Paris Cookbook (with Olivia Kiang-Snaije). First we will shop at a Paris green-market for the freshest ingredients and then return to Charlotte's professional kitchen near the Eiffel Tower to cook a three-course lunch. After, we will indulge in the delicious feast we prepared along with hand-selected wines.
Cost: 185 euros per person (about $240)
Time: 9:30AM- 2PM (approximately 4 1/2 hours)
Location: We will meet by a metro station close to the market
Class days: Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday,Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
Minimum of 2 students, maximum 6 students.
Click here to sign up for the next class or for more info.
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.
Tours cost 195 euros for up to 3 people, and 65 euros for each additional person. I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com
One of the most fun things to do during the holidays in Paris is to go to the Jours de Fetes, the indoor carnival and amusement park inside the Grand Palais. I was there early last evening taking photos and I loved the riot of colors of the neon and lights against the muted green iron and the panes of glass with night filtering through them of the Grand Palais. The sounds of the bells and whistles of the games of chance, kids and adults screaming with laughter or fear from the churning rides, and the crying of overtired babies echoed off the massive glass walls and cement floors.
The festivities last till January 2, so don't miss it!
Jours de Fetes
Grand Palais
Metro: Champs Elysees- Clemenceau
11AM to 11:30PM daily, Dec. 24 & 31 till 8PM
Admission 15 euros for adults/10 euros for children
http://www.grandpalais.fr/en/Homepage/p-617-lg1-Homepage.htm
Le Sponge Bob
Only in Paris would they have a Champagne bar at a carnival
New Eye Prefer Paris Photos for Sale
I am happy to announce the sale of a new set of prints of my Eye Prefer Paris Photos. I am offering 20 of my most popular and iconic images for sale including my doors, architectural details, statues, and monuments. They will make great gifts for all your Francophile friends, relatives, and colleagues but don't forget to buy some for yourself.
Click here to see photos and for full details including sizes, prices, and shipping. Here is a sample of some of the photos.
New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes
I am happy to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes. Come take an ethnic culinary journey with me and chef and caterer Charlotte Puckette, co-author of the bestseller The Ethnic Paris Cookbook (with Olivia Kiang-Snaije). First we will shop at a Paris green-market for the freshest ingredients and then return to Charlotte's professional kitchen near the Eiffel Tower to cook a three-course lunch. After, we will indulge in the delicious feast we prepared along with hand-selected wines.
Cost: 185 euros per person (about $240)
Time: 9:30AM- 2PM (approximately 4 1/2 hours)
Location: We will meet by a metro station close to the market
Class days: Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday,Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
Minimum of 2 students, maximum 6 students.
Click here to sign up for the next class or for more info.
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.
Tours cost 195 euros for up to 3 people, and 65 euros for each additional person. I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com
I have a very special Christmas treat for you today: My friend and neighbor Kein Cross has let me photograph the Christmas decorations of his dainty pied-à-terre.
Kein, a well-known interior designer from New York, was my Parisian of the Month last July and at that time I photographed his house when there were luscious plants and flower boxes. Kein arrived last week and within a day of being here, he transformed his house into a Christmas wonderland with bold, wide, black and white silk ribbon, white flocked trees, and over-the-top black feather wreaths.
Sorry but these fab decorations are hidden behind the doors of a 17th century hotel particulier in the Marais and aren't viewable to the public, but I am happy I can give you a glimpse through my photos.
New Eye Prefer Paris Photos for Sale
I am happy to announce the sale of a new set of prints of my Eye Prefer Paris Photos. I am offering 20 of my most popular and iconic images for sale including my doors, architectural details, statues, and monuments. They will make great gifts for all your Francophile friends, relatives, and colleagues but don't forget to buy some for yourself.
Click here to see photos and for full details including sizes, prices, and shipping. Here is a sample of some of the photos.
New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes
I am happy to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes. Come take an ethnic culinary journey with me and chef and caterer Charlotte Puckette, co-author of the bestseller The Ethnic Paris Cookbook (with Olivia Kiang-Snaije). First we will shop at a Paris green-market for the freshest ingredients and then return to Charlotte's professional kitchen near the Eiffel Tower to cook a three-course lunch. After, we will indulge in the delicious feast we prepared along with hand-selected wines.
Cost: 185 euros per person (about $240)
Time: 9:30AM- 2PM (approximately 4 1/2 hours)
Location: We will meet by a metro station close to the market
Class days: Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday,Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
Minimum of 2 students, maximum 6 students.
Click here to sign up for the next class or for more info.
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.
Tours cost 195 euros for up to 3 people, and 65 euros for each additional person. I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com
Late one night last week while waiting on the metro platform for my train to come, this new series of racy holiday ads for Hom Black Addict underwear certainly got my attention.
All I can say is, if this is the new Santa, I want what he's delivering. Ok, one more thing(I couldn't resist): I just started to believe in Santa all over again.
Oh baby, put those gifts right under my tree
New Eye Prefer Paris Photos for Sale
I am happy to announce the sale of a new set of prints of my Eye Prefer Paris Photos. I am offering 20 of my most popular and iconic images for sale including my doors, architectural details, statues, and monuments. They will make great gifts for all your Francophile friends, relatives, and colleagues but don't forget to buy some for yourself.
Click here to see photos and for full details including sizes, prices, and shipping. Here is a sample of some of the photos.
New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes
I am happy to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes. Come take an ethnic culinary journey with me and chef and caterer Charlotte Puckette, co-author of the bestseller The Ethnic Paris Cookbook (with Olivia Kiang-Snaije). First we will shop at a Paris green-market for the freshest ingredients and then return to Charlotte's professional kitchen near the Eiffel Tower to cook a three-course lunch. After, we will indulge in the delicious feast we prepared along with hand-selected wines.
Cost: 185 euros per person (about $240)
Time: 9:30AM- 2PM (approximately 4 1/2 hours)
Location: We will meet by a metro station close to the market
Class days: Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday,Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
Minimum of 2 students, maximum 6 students.
Click here to sign up for the next class or for more info.
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.
Tours cost 195 euros for up to 3 people, and 65 euros for each additional person. I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com
For Christmas 2011 it's Noël Rock ‘n’ Mode at Galeries Lafayette. The windows are adorned with chicly dressed animated marionettes called Kouklistars and have names such as Cyril Mokaiesh, Mademoiselle K, Inna Modja, Brigitte, and Iman. They have been created by New York artist Andrew Yang and he has also designed the life sized rock n roll mannequins.
Inside Galeries Lafayette stands the impressive 66 ft. tree dressed with 55 neon rock n roll signs on it.
Legendary rocker Iggy Pop is the poster boy for the Noël Rock ‘n’ Mode on all the metro ads.
Galeries Lafayette
40 Blvd. Haussmann, 75009
Metro: Chausée D'antin
http://www.galerieslafayette.com/
A Great Holiday Gift: Robert Wilson from Within
Margery Arent Safir has lovingly edited the marvelous book Robert Wilson from Within. Robert Wilson is the world's most foremost avant garde theater artist of his generation. Wilson's amazing career has spanned over 40 years and ranges across opera, stage works,visual arts, video, lighting, furniture, and set design. He is best known for his collaboration with Philip Glass on the unforgettable Einstein on the Beach plus he has conceived and directed new productions of operas The Magic Flute,Madama Butterfly, Pélleas et Mélisande, The Threepenny Opera,and in theater, Hamlet, Orlando, Quartett, Happy Days, Lulu. The book celebrates his long career and crowning achievements and contributors include Marina Abramovic, Laurie Anderson, Pierre Bergé, Philip Glass, Isabelle Huppert, Viktor & Rolf, and Rufus Wainwright.
Robert Wilson from Within is most special holiday gift for anyone who loves avant- garde theater.
Click here for more info and to order from Amazon.
Iggy Pop
New Eye Prefer Paris Photos for Sale
I am happy to announce the sale of a new set of prints of my Eye Prefer Paris Photos. I am offering 20 of my most popular and iconic images for sale including my doors, architectural details, statues, and monuments. They will make great gifts for all your Francophile friends, relatives, and colleagues but don't forget to buy some for yourself.
Click here to see photos and for full details including sizes, prices, and shipping. Here is a sample of some of the photos.
New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes
I am happy to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes. Come take an ethnic culinary journey with me and chef and caterer Charlotte Puckette, co-author of the bestseller The Ethnic Paris Cookbook (with Olivia Kiang-Snaije). First we will shop at a Paris green-market for the freshest ingredients and then return to Charlotte's professional kitchen near the Eiffel Tower to cook a three-course lunch. After, we will indulge in the delicious feast we prepared along with hand-selected wines.
Cost: 185 euros per person (about $240)
Time: 9:30AM- 2PM (approximately 4 1/2 hours)
Location: We will meet by a metro station close to the market
Class days: Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday,Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
Minimum of 2 students, maximum 6 students.
Click here to sign up for the next class or for more info.
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.
Tours cost 195 euros for up to 3 people, and 65 euros for each additional person. I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com
