Monday, July 27, 2020

Galerie Lafayette Gourmet, Notre Dame stamp

We are all 6-years old inside a Paris sweet shop. On the way to buy more stamps, I couldn't resist popping into GALERIE LAFAYETTE GOURMET. Dessert Alert! The ground floor is a selection of Paris' best pastry. You can save yourself a lot of time running around, but its also a test of your sweet tooth.
What did Oscar Wilde say? “The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it". In French, “Je peux résister à tout, sauf à la tentation”.  
Chocolate tresors from maitre Jean-Paul Hévin.
Perfect macarons from CHOCOLATIER Pierre Marcolini.
New strawberry babas from Yann Couvre. Its like Fashion Week here. New styles every visit.
A 4-pack box of mini ECLAIRS sooo tempting.
Galeries Lafayette's newest shop (they are constantly adding) is ice cream shop, La Glacerie. A MOF chef who plays with shapes, color, geometry.
Cylindrical tubes of ice cream!
I finally stopped resisting and got a dip of Mange-Vanille. Could you resist?
Such a pretty avocado green square gateau of Matcha 'Opera' cake.
Inspired my sensible avocado green salad choice at Pret à Manger also inside Galeries Gourmet. At the stamp shop a brand new commemorative issued 17July for tresors de Notre Dame, created by line engraving artist, Sarah Bougault.  A single block with just 1 stamp. Impossible to resist. I bought 5 planches /sheets. Subscribe or renew to Paris letters/maps and receive your own Notre Dame beauty. Did you know the French are mad stamp collectors? Its why so few stamps are stick-on. The glue is destructive. There are new French issues almost every week. And almost none for overseas 😳 Your resistance in Paris is tested every single day. To give in or to resist? That is the question! 🥐🍦🍫❤️Please stay well dear PBers 🐻💋

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  1. La Table De Nana8:09 AM

    The little girl..the desserts..Pierre Marcolini:)
    AND THOSE STAMPS!
    I can honestly say I am not a big fan of our stamps here.

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    1. Parisbreakfasts12:50 PM

      Really not good Canadian stamps? That is sad..
      And you have the maple leaf!

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  2. Kay Q12:46 PM

    From beginning to the end, delightful!
    The desserts look yummy.

    How did you resist?!

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    1. Parisbreakfasts12:49 PM

      Years of sitting in a darkened room with pastry flashcards and chocolate aromas wafting around whilst straped in a chair have certainly helped. But occasionally I succumb to temptation..

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  3. Carolyn7:02 PM

    I think the sorbet mitosis looks good! Whatever that is! Marionberry?

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    1. Parisbreakfasts12:27 AM

      Muroises I think you mean = loganberry
      Which I've never tasted...

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    2. Parisbreakfasts12:29 AM

      The loganberry is a hybrid of the North American blackberry and the European raspberry. The plant and the fruit resemble the blackberry more than the raspberry, but the fruit color is a dark red, rather than black as in blackberries. Wikipedia

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  4. Annabella Bray9:16 PM

    Oh la la! The Longchamp chocolat would be my downfall, anything with chocolat noir...😛 la salade avocat looks very nice too. Are you allowed to byo containers in France, Carol? It is something I am trying hard to remember to do and to promote to others here in Oz as a way to reduce waste and single use plastic packaging. 🙂 Bon chance! ❤💟💙

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    1. Parisbreakfasts12:25 AM

      I think you can..it depends
      They are already using a lot of disposible non-plastic materials fortunately.

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  5. Jeanie10:59 PM

    Oh, those stamps. I mean, ice cream is nice and macarons divine, but oh, those stamps! They are the best!

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    1. Parisbreakfasts12:23 AM

      I will show more stamp blocks..I've bought quite a few bc they are so witty!

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  6. Tim E11:17 PM

    Love the stamps, Carol. The Cathedral looks massive!!!!!!!

    Stay well my friend.

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  7. Bonelle11:18 PM

    Those pastries, and ice creams, do remind me of fashion week...a delight to the eye as well as to the taste buds!

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  8. Dorrance11:19 PM

    I always check the stamp first when your pretty envelopes arrive at my house. Pastry, ice cream, fashion, stamps; everything is so beautiful!

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  9. Lynn S12:20 AM

    The imaginations of French bakers are a wonder to behold!

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    1. Parisbreakfasts12:22 AM

      Too true Lynn,
      I'm mostly at the stage of just womdering. The urge to taste has subsided fortunately.
      How can they taste as good as they look? Impossible...in most cases...

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  10. Maria Russell6:34 PM

    Carol,

    I'm coming back from reading your "Cakes Glossary" article, dated Wednesday, October 11, 2006.
    Your work left me speechless for quite a while. As always, absolute perfection.

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    1. Parisbreakfasts1:34 PM

      Ooops I better go read it!
      I remember nothing :))

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  11. C+Y9:21 AM

    That little girl in the first picture looks like she stepped out of a Renoir painting. Your mentioning stamp collecting in France reminds me of one of my favorite Audrey Hepburn movies, "Charade", with Cary Grant. I can almost taste that strawberry baba, I could never resist if I met it in person.

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  12. Sketchbook Wandering2:52 PM

    Can't eat the sugar à cause de ma santé...so when in Paris ma tentation is found in les papeteries et les librairies...But they are pretty to look at, those sweet creations...

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