0 KINGS OF PASTRY!

Gerard Mulot Pastry Box, watercolor, 9" x 11"Pastry chefs and I have always seen eye to eye... They are the 'artistes' in the cuisine, with chocolate and sugar... Of course they adored having their portraits on their own business cards. They really got my food art biz going. When I received an invite to a screening of KINGS OF PASTRY I was thrilled. It's about the 3-day competition of carefully selected French pastry chefs, sixteen in fact, all vieing for the much coveted M.O.F. or Meilleur Ouvriers De France award in Lyon. As luck would have it, I went to Maine to paint and missed the screening, but they sent me the video and BOY OH BOY is it...

1 The Statue of Liberty

Have you been to the Statue of Liberty yet? I went for the first time ever on Saturday...'Attraversiamo', as Liz says in EAT PRAY LOVE (EPL) meaning 'Let's cross over'I'm always bla-bla-blaing about the Eiffel Tower so I thought it was time... Get ready to land PBers! Thar she is! YAHOO Naturallement we check the map before taking a step further... Ah the view...regarde! trop Magnifique! The everpresent gulls... Await a few crumbs from my sandwich.You'll take your own lunch PBers if yr smart. Every language under the sun is heard...Wunderbar! I brought along my paintbox bien sur for a few quickie thumbnails... Take my picture svp Waiting and...

0 Tip Your Hat

Shall we tip our hats to the last days of summer?I got a desperate plea from a PBer yesterday to PLEASE show anything, architecture, clothes, books anything but food. The Brits do love their hats. And their love of hats goes way back, even to this 1775 Lowestoft cane handle.'Course you might have to go to Ascot to actually see someone wearing a hat in the UK. Here's that stunner again in the Underground. Where else but in London do you see a plethora of... Cocktail hats? Even a decorative headband becomes a 'Hat' in the UK. Butler & Wilson on Fulham road has been creating fantasy hats forever... That hat again in Harvey Nichols - worth a...

0 ICE CREAM PETITS FOURS - DARING BAKERS

Although, at the beginning of each month, I promise myself to finish my Daring Bakers' challenge long before the deadline I always end up making it at the very last moment. I think that I'm having trouble dealing with the endless flow of time. Every Sunday I feel as if I have got thrown into a washing machine with the tumble dryer program on and I shake my head in disbelief everytime a new month starts. I feel like a hamster running round in a wheel...The August 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Elissa of "17 And Baking". For the first time, The Daring Bakers partnered with Sugar High Fridays for a co-event and Elissa was the gracious...