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Jennifer McLagan Cookbook author and food lover

Paris

May 4, 2009, 7:55 am

Croissants
Croissants

We arrived at Roissy airport under gray skies threatening rain but by lunchtime they'd cleared and we ate lunch on our friends terrace enjoying the warmth of the sun surrounded by greenery and flowers. I was particularly jealous of their huge rosemary bush covered in purple flowers.
Chez nous our rosemary is still going strong, but no sign of flowers and my beloved bay tree has come though the winter. The sage has survived and the thyme is making a valiant effort too.
Sunday morning with a steaming bowl of cafe au lait in one hand and a buttery croissant in the other I knew I was in Paris.
It seems that this trip will be one of discovery, already we've eaten crozets a pasta from the Savoie, and a seaweed from the bay of Mont St Michel, more about both of them later.

*    Aberjhani

* Aberjhani says:

You are in my dream city

Ever since reading biographies on Josephine Baker, novels by Jean Paul Sartre, and various-genre works by James Baldwin, Paris has been my dream city. I often planned to go while stationed in England as a military journalist but couldn't find a way to treat my entire family so held back. So it remains a beautiful goal that I hope to fulfill sooner than later.

Enjoy!

Aberjhani
Founder of Creative Thinkers International
author of The American Poet Who Went Home Again
and Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (Facts on File)

Jennifer McLagan

Jennifer McLagan says:

Yes Aberjhani, sometimes I

Yes Aberjhani, sometimes I have to pinch myself - Paris is magical and so beautiful. Do fulfill your goal - Paris will reward you.

Jennifer

Mary Wilkinson

Mary Wilkinson says:

Jennifer, thank you for the

Jennifer, thank you for the tastes and smells of Paris....it makes me want to grab a cheap Ryanair flight and hop over for the day just to savour those croissants! MaryP