Prepping for Paris

I’ve been collecting recommendations from friends and coworkers in preparation for my big trip (leaving Thursday night and can’t wait!). There have been a few museum recommendations, but mostly people are all about the food. Crepe cart suggestions abound, and no less than three people have suggested that Tina and I hit La Durée. They provided all the treats for the movie Marie Antoinette, and apparently their macaroons are to die for.

One of the other ones that caught my eye, though, is Cafe de Flore en l'Ile, where we can mix our own hot chocolate from a silver pitcher of thick bittersweet chocolate and another of steamed milk. Tina rightly described this as sounding “like a little slice of heaven on earth.”

I suspect I’ll come back from France both fat and happy.