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Christmas in Paris 2009
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 24 December 2009
My Christmas Tree Merry Christmas! I wish you a wonderful and joyous holiday and hope you are spending it with family, friends, and loved ones. New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes I am happy to announce the launch of Eye...
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Paris Food and Wine Safaris with Wendy Lyn
Blog: Paris By Appointmenty Only - 23 December 2009
A Florida expat with spitfire spunk and a Southern drawl as thick as molasses, Wendy Lyn is not your typical Parisienne (hallelujah to that!). What she is, however, is every foodie's fantasy come true. For an inside taste of Paris, join this culinary go-to-gal on one of her fabulous food walks.
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Stuff Parisians Like: Macarons Ladurée
Blog: ParisienSalon.com - 23 December 2009
Parisians lack imagination. Baby Shower? Macarons Ladurée. Birthday party ? Macarons Ladurée. Thank you note? Macarons Ladurée. Dinner party? Macarons Ladurée. Weekend in Normandy? Macarons Ladurée. Le macaron has become a key social lubricant in Paris. While most Parisians have given up on ancestral guilty pleasures (sex, drugs, alcohol), very few will say no to the modern form of socially acceptable vice: Le Macaron Ladurée.
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Meredith Mullins: The Spirit of Snow
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 23 December 2009
The last time I was in snow ecstasy was in February. The photography gods were thoughtful enough to shake me awake at 5 am, and I went forth into the darkness, camera in hand, to capture the spirit of the...
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Door of the Month: 14 rue de Chomel
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 22 December 2009
I found this splendid black iron and glass door in a courtyard of a sumptuous Art-Deco building in the 7th arr. behind Le Bon Marché department store. I also like the decaying mosaic fountain and the elegant portico above the...
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The Angel of the rue de Turbigo
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 21 December 2009
I am most pleased to post an excerpt from Rosemary Flannery’s upcoming book, Guide to the Angels of Paris: Looking up in the World’s Most Beautiful City. Soaring over three stories at 57 rue de Turbigo, the smiling, colossal stone...
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French vs American Women: Walking the Thin Line in Paris
Blog: ParisienSalon.com - 18 December 2009
Sasha is, by all appearances, the stereotypical Parisienne. She’s long, lean and effortlessly stylish. She’s also beautiful, married to a handsome Frenchman and the mother to an adorable little boy. In fact, Sasha is exactly the type of woman most American women would quietly (but never openly) resent, because she just seems to have it all.
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France in Native Fiction
Blog: A Traveler's Library - 18 December 2009
France on Friday Book: France, A Traveler’s Literary Companion, Edited by William Rodarmor and Anna Livia Whereabouts Press serves a narrow niche of the traveling public–those who want to read literature written by the locals–in bite size form. To me, the books are similar to books like Art Guide to Italy–a 101 survey course meant to whet [...]This content is a post from: A Traveler's Library
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Christmas in Paris 2009
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 17 December 2009
This is the grande finale in my Christmas in Paris 2009 series. It was a clear, chilly night when I snapped these photos of the tree in front of Notre Dame, storefronts on the Ile St. Louis, and the tree...
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Valerie Sloan’s Sculpted Artisanal Jewels
Blog: Paris By Appointmenty Only - 16 December 2009
Just like her distinct, handmade jewelry, Valerie Sloan’s shoebox of a boutique is striking despite its diminutive size. Maybe it’s because there’s usually no one in it. When she’s not upstairs with her slowly growing clientele, the former sculptor can be found downstairs in her atelier handcrafting new pieces for her couture bijoux collection.
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Christmas in Paris 2009: Ice Magic
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 16 December 2009
I bundled up in my down coat and wool cap last week to see Ice Magic, an exhibition of 50 ice sculptures of famous French monuments and icons. The Eiffel Tower, Rodin's Thinker, Notre Dame and its hunchback, Mona Lisa,...
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A New Fashion Bui-tique in Paris
Blog: ParisienSalon.com - 15 December 2009
Fashion shouldn’t be intimidating, at least not according to Nathalie Bui. The petite fashionista spent ten years working with her sister, the European designer Barbara Bui, all the while cultivating her own sense of style. And now she’s bringing her creative energy to the Paris fashion scene with the opening of her own boutique, make my d.
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Christmas in Paris 2009: Le Bon Marché
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 15 December 2009
I think that Le Bon Marché has the most innovative holiday windows this year with video artist Bertrand Planes installation of four animated videos. They all humorously reference the holiday turkey with one window of cascading paper plates filled with...
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Toilets and Traveling
Blog: Green Earth Guides ~ Traveling Naturally - 14 December 2009
I consider myself relatively easy going about toilets and bathroom facilities. That is I have gone backwoods camping and once lived with nothing more than an outhouse for almost four years. So it is not that I require luxury. However, when traveling I am amazed at the state of some toilettes.
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Christmas in Paris 2009: Hermes
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 14 December 2009
The holiday windows at Hermes always dazzle me and they truly set the bar for sumptuous, decadent, all-out luxury. This year the theme is Turkey,inspired by ceramics from Isnik from the Ottoman empire . Leila Menchari is the legendary window...
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Q & A with Author of French Graffiti
Blog: A Traveler's Library - 11 December 2009
France on Friday AN INTERVIEW WITH ALEXANDRA GRABBE Alexandra Grabbe married a French man and moved to Paris as a young woman. She stayed in France with her husband and children until their divorce, and then lived there with her 2nd husband before returning to the United States to run Chez Sven, a green B & [...]This content is a post from: A Traveler's Library
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Natural Health & Beauty in the City of Lights & Love
Blog: Green Earth Guides ~ Traveling Naturally - 10 December 2009
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Until Spring in Paris, There’s Table 28
Blog: ParisienSalon.com - 10 December 2009
Everyone loves Spring in Paris. That’s because American-expat chef Daniel Rose made the 16-seat restaurant he opened in 2006 on the rue de la Tour-d’Auvergne a hit with food critics and fickle French foodies alike. Rose prepared a set menu of four courses using the freshest seasonal finds at the daily market, adding a new level of culinary energy to the Paris dining scene.
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Christmas in Paris 2009: Galeries Lafayette
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 10 December 2009
Animated teddy bears, dolls, and rabbits dressed by Jean Paul Gaultier, Kenzo, Marc by Marc, Maje, Manoush and Zadig & Voltaire are having the time of their life in the windows at Galeries Lafayette this holiday season. Inside the store...
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Lady in Paris...Again
Blog: A Lady in London - 9 December 2009
Paris is one of my favorite cities in the world. I could go back every weekend and never get tired of exploring new neighborhoods, visiting new museums, and, of course, eating at new restaurants. The source of all of these new things usually comes from recommendations from friends, and after posting on Facebook that I was off to the City of Lights, I had no shortage of them on my trip to Paris last week.
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Atelier 7: A New Private Gallery in Picasso’s Old Pad
Blog: Paris By Appointmenty Only - 9 December 2009
Would you rather spend an afternoon with the George Clooney of photography in an apartment that Picasso once lived in, or a herd of zonked out tourists at the Louvre? Breathing fresh air into the formulaic art scene, Atelier 7 is a private gallery that resuscitates the forgotten genre of the Parisian art salon.
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Christmas in Paris 2009: Lanvin
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 9 December 2009
I especially like these clever holiday windows at the Lanvin men's and women's shop. Lanvin -Men 15 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 8th arr. Lanvin- Women 22 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 8th arr. Metro: Concorde New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes...
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Noshing (and more) in Paris - The Jewish Neighborhood in Marais
Blog: Green Earth Guides ~ Traveling Naturally - 8 December 2009
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Paris Up in Smoke
Blog: ParisienSalon.com - 8 December 2009
It’s been nearly two years since the smoke cleared in Paris. In February 2008, the decree banning smoking in every corner of “entertainment and conviviality” in France took effect. And in the time since, Paris has undergone a silent transformation with some surprising effects.
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Christmas in Paris 2009: BHV
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 8 December 2009
Beloved French fashion designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac was put in charge of livening up the usually tame holiday windows this season at BHV department store by the Hotel de Ville. His hypnotic, ever-changing rainbow color fluorescent lights across the facade...
