0 Bosie Tea Parlor

Where are we..? What's your first guess?Me too. Just like Paris no? But no, it's New York City! We're at Bosie...Bosie Tea Parlor on 10 Morton Street in the Village. Kathy YL Chan of A Passion for Food told me about it. I doubted real French pastry could be found in NYC but I have been proved wrong again. Voila! L'eclair de creme with Chamomile tea filling. Kathy brought along these exquisite Japanese sugars, Chambre de Sucre fit for a king. They have been supplying the Emperor for centuries and perfect for my mint tea and Kathy's Matcha Latte... Et oui, Bosie has a full array of fresh macarons... A darling shop just the...

0 Paris Was Ours

The top book I'm reading this week is Paris Was Ours. I can't put it down and neither will you. It won't tell you what to wear in Paris, though there's a chapter on 'Understanding Chic' by Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni but I haven't read it yet... It won't tell you which patisseries to go to either... It will tell you what it's like to be an ex-pat in Paris and feel lost. Editor Penelope Rowlands starts off the introduction with, 'I'm a PARISIAN of the recurrent, revolving door kind.' Later she reveals, 'We hated Paris and loved it all at once, and when we headed back to New York (after a year) we did so reluctantly.' 32 writers contributed their...

0 WORDLESS WEDNESDAY - VINES IN PARADIZE

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0 My Studio 2011

WELCOME! You're invited in to my studio 2011 Not that much different from my studio 2010 is it? OK maybe it is. Amazing how many ways you can throw stuff up in the air and it comes down in different patterns like pickup sticks. These macarons are only 3 months old. I use a pastry box to reflect the light - another Eureka moment. Do you believe if you surround yourself with the things you love, eventually they'll sink into your brain by osmosis? I do. I love Morandi, Wayne Thiebaud, Japanese prints, and Fr pastry. The studio exhibit is constantly changing. Here is a pile of Parisian gifts-with-purchase I send out with your watercolors. What...

0 Pastry Meditation...

Religieuse Violette, watercolor, 9" x 11" I thought I was posting on the lovely, orderly way Parisian patissiers... Line up their creations... Like soldiers standing to attention in perfect rows. Then I had one of those Eureka! moments. Is it possible my obsession with French pastry has everything to do with a desperate need for order and nothing to do with chocolate or whipped cream? These perfect disks lined up with such precision... Labeled and priced, measured centimeters apart, are the exact opposite of my chaotic studio... I fight a losing battle with entropy daily, Yet the vision of glossy tartes... Is like a Zen meditation... Do I...