Monday January 14, 2013 Frederic Lalos
Like this running baker boy, I was racing 🏃♀️ to the pool when I stopped in my tracks
A big boulangerie with the words plastered on the side, Meilleur Ouvriers De France or MOF. The highest honor France can bestow on a craftsman for his metier. Remember the movie, The Kings of Pastry?
Thoughts of the pool evaporated as I peeked inside...
Stacks of fresh baguettes 🥖 tradition resting in the vitrine.
Not only has chef Frederic Lalos received the MOF at the young age of 26 but his bread was awarded the 'Label Rouge', a mark of France's highest standards.
More red ribbons adorn Lalos' chocolates. Don't you love the sound of Marbella grilled noisette 'enrobed' in chocolate. I would love a chocolate robe.
Peering in the other window the vendeuse looked...
just like a Toulouse-Lautrec drawing.
I tore myself away from le leche-vitirine and ran on to the pool. At the pool door I remembered I'd forgotten the essential flip flops. Nothing for it but head back to Frederic Lalos' boulangerie and browse a bit more. The vendeuse was patient. Other clients came and went while I perused everything in the pastry case several times over. With a little smile the vendeuse finally got me my baguette au cereal and a pot of apple compote. I'll have to go back no doubt. Next trip to the pool bien sur!
Some of you requested a CAT OF THE DAY. I saw this while pool-bound. I'll attend the cat show to stock up on the less obvious Paris cat for you! Bonne Journee!
In any case, you can still say you went to the pool!
ReplyDeleteAch! You've no idea how badly I need to go to the pool.
DeleteFrench food is winning the battle thus far!
Pas bon :(
I vote for cat of the day
ReplyDeleteJan
Oh my. Inspiration and temptation everywhere. I don't know how you make it through the day!
ReplyDeleteI am failing big time Connie
DeleteNeed a training course for this town!!!
Mission impossible!
Why oh why do we all fall into the French trap so easily? The answer is so easy! there is a boulangerie or patisserie on every corner.
ReplyDeleteOmg
DeleteThank you Barbara
I am a mouse caught in the trap
I am so willingly caught
I had no idea how tough it could be here
Temptation City!!!
That Tarte Citron looks wonderful! How did you resist? Can we go visit this bakery? You know, just for resarch?
ReplyDeleteI am always with my husband and he's not a shopper or a browser, even in a bakery. He would just never understand to siren call of a fresh baguette or macaron. We just whiz on by, the destination of the day is the goal. I need to tour Paris with another woman some day.
ReplyDeleteI mean "the siren call"
DeleteThe siren call
DeleteYou nailed J
I hear it all day long here like an iPod playing
It can be torturous ... :))
I'll go with you anytime...although I must say my husband will browse anywhere, anytime.
DeleteBe for warned,!! La 'Fromagerie' is next, just waiting to pounce on you and grab you into its lair, then little by little you become hooked.
ReplyDeleteBut what the heck !! I say 'that's all part of the French way of life.
Have fun... B.
I wish there was a pastry shop like that on my running route. I'd forget my shoes every single day, I'm sure...
ReplyDeleteYour Chat of the day looks a lot like our Daisy. Nice to see both Cats and Dogs here. Was the lack of flip flops your subconscious not wanting to exercise? :))
ReplyDeleteAnother temptation to add to my ever-gtrowing list of places to find~
ReplyDeleteHow about alternating cats & dogs~I hope you go to the cat show.
Seems like that little devil whispering in your ear is getting through loud and clear.
I love these Journal entries!!!!
Wow -- even in France, the good old Maine Coon is the glamour puss. Ha! Score One for the Etats Unis!
ReplyDeleteIt's my birthday today and my husband just gave me a round-trip ticket to Paris. Does he know how to shop or what?
Oh mon dieu!
DeleteBonne Anniversaire Mme Vivian Swift!,
xxx Carolg
Happy Birthday, Vivian!
Delete(I tried to comment on your own blog, but could not find an open comment box.)
sounds delectable--very impressive, Carol. Love your sketch up there and your dogs on the side here!
ReplyDeleteI just looked at your post again and saw the doggies on the right sidebar -- OMG!!! Those portraits are ADORABLE!
ReplyDeleteAnd you've captured one of those perfect moments in Paris, to glance into a newly-discovered boulangerie for a vignette straight out of Toulouse-Lautrec. Sigh.
I think I would collect boulangerie bread wrappers..I love them so:)
ReplyDeleteI baked 2 lovely loaves today..and just plain brown papered them..I would have fancied prettier~
Vivian..happy Birthday..great gift!
Happy Birthday!
ReplyDeleteThis boulangerie sounds amazing!
well thats really interesting as usual.. great post .interesting
ReplyDeleteI can't believe you left the tarte citron behind! What force of will, I am in awe.
ReplyDeleteLa vie à Paris, eh?? Bon weekend, Carolg - eat it all up!
ReplyDeleteHere I am being tortured in a Northern California beach town by a boulangerie and chat show 5K+ miles away!! Yes, loved 'Kings of Pastry'.
ReplyDeleteTemptation on every corner! I'm looking forward to exploring the 15th on my next visit, we'll be staying in the 6th, and it will be all too easy. Frederic has gone on the wish list. I do love your artists eye and how you saw the vendeuse as a painting.
ReplyDeleteI am loving your new addition of adding the calendar tear out with a drawling. Keep up the great work with your blog! I love following it on my RSS Feed! :D
ReplyDeleteReally miss the great patisseries and boulangeries in France. Can't wait to return and indulge!
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