Paris Loves Pistachios

 

Do you love pistachios? I’m nuts 🌰 about anything pistachio-flavored.

After my encounter with Princesse Pistache last week, I went looking for more pistachio desserts. Anything in this flavor 🙏 Luckily Paris loves 💚 Pistache too.

I painted 🎨 Princesse Pastiche over and over 

To get that special shade of green. 

How can a nut so intensely ‘Kelly’ green 

Become so subtle and pale when it is baked?

Eons ago I struggled with capturing Paris Macarons pistache. Another elusive and variable shade of green.

Like with most things I found myself “falling down the rabbit hole” of total pistache immersion.

Near my post office, Lebanese Glacier Bältis specializes in ice cream covered in éclats or brisures/broken bits of pistache. I went in only to browse. I did not leave empty-handed

The past few nights I made several nocturnal visits to Gelateria Amorino 5 minutes from my house. They are open till 10 pm. (Berthillon is closed for Easter).

Their pistache ice cream rates up there with Pozzetto, Grome, and Berthillon.

I meant to paint it, but it melted and had to be eaten immédiatement 🤤 I got the single macaron at Amorino too👍

You can not think about pistachios & Paris without searching out Du pain et des idées’ (8th best bakery on Trip Advisor)famous twirly Escargot Pistache Chocolat. Instead I went the other side of Paris looking for a croissant 🥐 pistache. I found the last one at Boulangerie Emanuel Martin. *If you go hunting in the afternoon, the chances of finding morning viennoisseries are slim. I was holding my breath the couple in front of me did not grab it.

I wish I had made it to Maison du Chocolat for their éclair Pistache. 

Solli and I started dreaming about attending the Festival of Pistache in September in Bronte, Sicily. Will you Will you come too?

We haven’t discussed how healthy pistachios are. A daily handful (30-50 grams) supplies fiber, iron and magnesium and offers more than 30 different vitamins, minerals including vitamin E. 

Listen to BBC Michael Mosley of Just One Thing on snacking nuts instead of chocolate. 

*Tip: if you buy pistachios whose shell is closed or barely split, it means that the fruit was harvested when it was not ripe.

Pistachios, considered the queen of nuts, go back 3000 years. They were adored by the Queen of Sheba.

For Pistachio HQ in Paris, you most go to La Pistacherie at Pont d’Alma. 

This is heaven 

For pistachio lovers 💚

Nuts (really they are seeds or drups) of every origin, from Iran and Bronte and in every form, truffled-flavored or golden shelled. I fell hard for the nutty nougat in those Aladdin’s chest of drawers.

Ta da! My haul from La Pistacherie 🤸🏾‍♀️ Lots of still life material (what’s left of it 😂 ). Are you nutz 🌰 about Pistachios? Paris is the right place for you. 

Restaurant Loulou in musee des Arts Décoratif (MAD) has a renown savory spaghetti with pistache pesto sauce. We have to wait till they reopen in May after renovations 🙏

*Is there another, favorite  single ingredient in Paris you’d like me to research 🔬? Do tell.

Are these Luxembourg chairs a deep pistachio color? 

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