Blanc du Jour

Yesterday was 'Jour du blanc'

Parisian fleurist's windows are full of white flowers right now.



I learned it's a French tradition to start the Nouvel an/New Year off with white flowers = meaning a fresh start. I started seeing WHITE everywhere!



Snow must be a factor too like these powder sugar-dusted galettes from Polaine

Piles of white chevre in every geometrical shape - cone, cube, pyramid and cylinder in fromagerie Laurant Dubois' window.

My first time in Paris you could buy shards of snow white coconut on the street along St. Germain. Now you get it in Monoprix.

Pierre Herme has a beautiful red shiny copy of his paper pastry bags but in plastic (?) and big enough to hold all your white hyacinths and coconuts and chevre.

It could hold The Dog of the Day too,on Avenue Pasteur...

Thank you Jennie in Hong Kong for writing about your pet in Paris portrait for the morning paper!

Jour de blanc ended with white vanilla ice cream from reknown Picard, French frozen food heaven (famous for their produits alimentaires surgelés, melting on top of Picard's Crumble aux pomme. Yes it was YUM.

There's a plethora of white fuzzy animals in Paris shop windows. The non-existent French squirrel can be counted on to show up decked out white as snow.

BONNE WEEKEND PBers!