Showing posts with label Faberge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Faberge. Show all posts

Sunday, March 23, 2008

La Grande Chasse aux Oeufs

French Easter Eggs I'd love to know how many miles of ribbon are used on French chocolate eggs this Easter.French Easter EggsIs this the biggest chocolate egg in the world? At Marquise de Sevigne on rue de Seine it's 2,800 kilos of chocolate (6,160 pds) and only costs 180,000 euros.French Easter Eggs Some choc eggs are decked out in pale green ribbons for the holiday.French Easter Eggs An egg within an egg at La Maison du Chocolat on rue de Sevres. The tiny boutique was so jamed-packed with shoppers they were selling chocolate eggs in the street as well. Never happen in New York :)French Easter Eggs My favorite old fashioned candy shop, Les BonBons on rue Brea had eggs up the whazoo and the shop was packed. Well every chocolate shop was packed on Saturday in Paris.French Easter Eggs Patrick Roger had giant a "Stone Henge" of chocolate eggs in his window.
Plus he used the shells as containers for even more chocolate eggs.
French Easter Eggs A miniature tableau of a mini chocolate shop on Ile St. Louis.
French Easter Eggs Fauchon, always the innovator, showed faux egg yolks in a verrine looking much like prairie oysters.
French Easter EggsHere they are.
French Easter Eggs Your everyday egg crate filled with some of the best chocolate in Paris at Patrick Roger and costing a tad more than the average dz.
French Easter EggsJean Rachoux had little Piu-piu/chicks hatching in his window.
French Easter Eggs More hatchery going on in a children's boutique - non-edible this time.
French Easter Eggs A very sweet egg on rue de Rivoli - a Faberge enamel egg.
French Easter Eggs But perhaps the sweetest eggs of all.
The eggs these children found in the grass at the egg hunt at Chateau Vaux le Vicomte today!

French Easter Eggs 

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Homage To A French Egg

Oeufs Durs at Cafe FloreCafe Flore's Oeuf A La Coque, Watercolor, 9" x 11 1/2"
Why is it only the French understand so well,
That a plain, simple egg can really be quite swell?

Cuisine Brute by Jerome Dumoulin and Nicolas Le Bec Nothings too good for the French egg.
Diners have been known to beg...
They'd rather eat a French egg than a chicken leg...

Decked out in caviar and truffles,
All that's missing are the white ruffles..

Many a book is proud
To have a French egg grace its cover.

I've heard Parisien crowds shout out loud,
GIVE US THE BOOK with the French egg on it's cover!

Cafe Flore's Boutique window Even the finest French cafes
Think nothing of having eggcups on display.
You may well find a French egg at the Musee D'Orsay!

Homage poster to oeuf a la coque Heavens, even Faberge
Created an array of golden eggs.

Caramel and chocolate eggs at Le BonBon

Sadly the American egg has been taken down a peg..
No such glories await the American egg.

Oh why is it only the French, who understand so well,
That a plain, simple egg can be filled even with caramel.

* Guest poster Annimouse to the rescue, while I'm under deadline here...

MERCI!