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Sunday, May 04, 2025

Ladurée X Patou - Galeries Lafayette

Summer has arrived early in Paris

(aside from the hamburger-sized hail stones that landed on us mid-afternoon yesterday). 🆘 I was too shocked to take picture 📸

Saturday, November 18, 2023

Mon Noël de Rêve - Charles de Vilmorin - Galeries Lafayette Windows

Yesterday I went to see Galeries Lafayette Noël windows

And researched them today.

Monday, November 18, 2013

Paris Xmas Windows

The gorgeous girl in pink in all of Galeries Lafayette Metro posters is no where to be seen in the actual windows. What happen?

Still I loved this giant cat with clocks for eyes.

Clocks are the theme, "Once upon a time"
IL ÉTAIT UNE FOIS NOËL

In all the windows.

Is it about the tick, tock before Santa arrives?

I have no idea but the kiddies were lapping it up as always and that's who it's for.

There is always a splendid feast scene in Galeries Lafayette's vitrines.

Tick, tock.

Natch the chef is loaded with lobsters for the grand fete.

Other GL windows have giant hour glasses and floating bunnies.

You tell me what it means but at least it's very pretty, dreamy.

Printemps has joined forces with fashion house Prada

Dancing bears doing a Moulin Rouge routine

And snow bears on a glacier jumping about.

But most of their windows are full of Prada fashions...

A slightly different feast scene...ahem

I have no idea at all what this is about.

Wolves in sheep's clothing at Printemps. Look at the shadows - a giveaway.

I'll take these clock-shaped lemon meringues inside Printemps from Hugo and Victor thank you very much.

I'll be missing Bergdorfs windows this Xmas.

Monday, December 05, 2011

French Chocolate Chip Cookies!

Another French bone of contention today. I got steamed up reading RP's evaluation of the best chocolate chip cookies in Paris(!?) You're looking at a Laura Todd 'classique' (burp) chocolat noir here.

Here's your basic New York chocolate chip($3.) from City Bakery. OK maybe the sugar is too carmelized etc. but the texture and surface is day and night from those Frenchie chocolate chips.

How could it be otherwise, when the flour, water, eggs, bla, bla, bla are completement different. Even the altitude counts I was told in France. Not to mention the chocolate...ahem

These sad looking samples were being sold dans le rue in Montmartre.

For a celebration of terroir/regional products. OUCH

I know the French love new trends and maybe choc-chip cookies are 'cool', but I'm very chauvinistic about these. Disclosure: I'm not a chocolate chip cookie connosisseur. I'll eat a chocolate-chocolate chip before I go for the classic. My fav is at Cafe Petrossian but they were cleaned out by 2 pm on Saturday (and they're a FRENCH cafe). Even mass-market Whole Foods cookies look better than the Fr samples. Wish I'd gotten the pumpkin-walnut.

Union Sq. Farmers Market gets them right.

Laura Todd is a huge very clever chain that introduced choc chips to France. I broil when I see their stands at the salon du chocolat or Galeries Lafayette Gourmet. Grrrrr