Shiny, bight Things (SOS), Carette

I was saying to Vicki (my NYC neighbor for 10 years)the other day, that I always seem to be chasing after some unobtainable carrot 🥕 

Vicki said, “But really, that’s already the basis of your blog, as you seek out and report on one “bright shiny object” after another (think macarons…)

I Googled that. Have you heard of SOS? 

Shiny Object Syndrome. It’s a real condition. Often people with ADHD have it.

This guy wrote a hysterical song about SOS!

Although most people don’t have SOS literally, madly chasing after silvery teapots 🫖 and spoons🥄 🥄🥄

Tuesday morning, as I was surfing Instagram comme d’hab, I had a coup de foudre/instant love ❤️ with a silvery teapot. I asked which Paris cafe? so I could run and draw ✏️ it. No response back😢

Later post-la Poste 📬 jaunt, wandering around Place des Vosges (it was a gorgeously, sunny day - 70 degrees).

I passed by Cafe Carette.

I went inside to browse the pastries…just checking of course 😊 A must-do…

I noticed a discarded tray with exactly the same teapot as the instagram picture! Naturally I took a pic 📸 

Was it Karmic destiny we should meet again the same day? 

OK, fate decided I must have tea at Carette, 25, Place des Vosges 75003

I think I’m in good company with this shiny objects fixation. Bonjour Mary Cassatt.

Another probable SOSer is British artist, William Nicholson (I just re-bought this book…left behind in New York), absolute master of painting silvery, lustrous surfaces.

Meanwhile back at Carette, the waitress comes running 🏃‍♀️ over to take my order and says,

”You’re the one who draws✏️” 

She remembered me doodling a year ago! 

Turns out my beloved teapot only serves Chocolat chaud not tea. Very good it was too.

Speaking of bright, shiny things, I will not be glued watching the coronation. Please don’t hold it against me 🙏 Don’t send back your watercolors. Is it today? 

Nor will I be eating ‘Coronation Quiche’, which according to The Guardian, the French claim should be called a tart. Broad beans are all wrong for a quiche evidently.

I just got up and made a salad 🥗  for breakfast. Not particularly gorgeous but very tasty.

The new, hot, GLUCOSE GODDESS (she’s French), Jessie Inchauspé, says we should all be eating savory things before sweets. Have you heard of her?

Ah, but I digress as usual 🙃

Thanks for coming along on another twisty, turny, shaggy dog story, dear PBers🙏 

2023 is proving to be quite the eventful year. 

Thanks for reading amd sharing Parisbreakfasts.

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