Au revoir to all that?

Maybe not: Two favorites sound as if they're holding up better than fine.

Vicarious

kirs.

Not fud, but LOL

And I found it just after a radically brave cookbook author emailed to say she had just eaten testicles in Paris and when I was just wondering whether to write Pow McSame to ask: Finally, have you no sense of dignity? 

Cupcakes

French style. Somehow I'm feeling better about being left behind in Pesoville. 

Since we can't afford France

this is relatively transporting. 

One that got away

The danger of linking wildly after four cups of tea in the morning is that you can't get 'em all. I'll have more to say at the base camp on Sunday, but this take on the new French, in every sense of the term, was rather insightful.