1. bread is not filling. okay, maybe it's filling for an hour...tops. my stomach has become a bottomless pit. i think the excess of yeast is expanding my gastrointestinal tract to accommodate the extreme amount of bread i've been consuming.
2. the french are skinny because there is not much of a late night food scene and by observing them in their natural habitat i have concluded that they only consume café allongé (i.e. espresso) and cigarette smoke.
3. blogger, Vahram Muratyan, author of parisvsnyc.blogspot.com draws many adept comparisons between these two glorious cities. In his own witty way he whittles down these two worlds into expressive pieces of pop art that sometimes make you cringe at how accurate they are. However, what he may not realize is that some of the gems of ny don't just resemble paris, they exist in paris.
Take for example "Merce & the Muse"http://merceandthemuse.com/, "an East Village-hip coffee shop run by a young American expat in the upper Marais" http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2011/may/06/top-10-cafes-paris. This establishment made me feel at home this morning when I was greeted by an American and served earl grey tea and a real true brunch of arugala salad, radish & sesame salad, a soft boiled egg, and smoked salmon and 'ol style philadelphia cream cheese on some (healthy!) whole wheat bread. But alas...there was an added bread basket with butter and cranberry coulis. sigh.
neat fact no. 1: 75003 is the zip code for the 3rd arrondissement aka "le marais" and I know this how? well, you can tell by the last number(s) of the zip code which correspond to the number of the arrondissement, so the 5th would be 75005
and in true french fashion i spent the afternoon digesting by walking around and shopping my heart out (mostly with my eyes).
for good measure, here is another blatant example of how a bit ny exists within paris...
à la prochaine
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