{"id":318,"date":"2011-01-08T22:07:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T22:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marigoldonline.net\/?p=318"},"modified":"2011-01-08T22:07:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T22:07:25","slug":"breakfast-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marigoldonline.net\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Petite dejeuner, (meaning breakfast in French which\u00a0 translates as\u00a0 ‘little lunch’, a concept that never made sense to me), is typically a plain pastry and coffee.\u00a0 In Paris last June with\u00a0 Natalie,\u00a0 above,\u00a0 we had petite\u00a0 dejeuner in one of the many cafes in the Marais, the arrondissement in which our apartment was located (on a street straight out of central casting.) \u00a0 No matter that we had a lovely, well-equipped kitchen — it\u00a0 fun checking out the other people.<\/p>\n

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Natalie’s hot chocolate fix started on day one. French hot chocolate is truly delicious–as Julia Child might have said, “so chocolaty.” (According to My Life in Fran<\/em>ce, written by Julia with Alex Prud’homme, she said that French chickens were\u00a0 “very chickeny” so I’m not stretching by a lot.)<\/p>\n

The first few days we each had a croissant until we saw other people enjoying what is called a tartine, basically a baguette sliced into strips, lightly toasted and served with butter and jam. Going forward, our mornings began with tartine pour deux, chocolate for her, coffee for me. Once in a while when I lusted for OJ, I ordered it, freshly squeezed, merci.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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I’ve been in Paris many times and seen dogs in restaurants of all kinds–\u00a0 chic wine bars to homey bistros. \u00a0\u00a0 At the cafe in the picture, we met\u00a0 a dog at the next table. He must have been a regular, sitting politely next to his person’s chair.\u00a0 Every so often, a hunk of tartine (no butter, no jam, thanks) came his way.\u00a0 This dog was typically Parisian in that he sat quietly, didn’t beg and enjoyed what he ate.<\/p>\n

This dog was so supremely civilized, he would probably have even loved the ceiling at the Galleries Lafayette in all its Belle Epoch splendor.\u00a0 However, it’s unlikely that he would have\u00a0 wouldn’t have left, as I did, humming the music from Gigi.\u00a0 The only thing missing was Maurice Chevalier!<\/p>\n

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Petite dejeuner, (meaning breakfast in French which\u00a0 translates as\u00a0 ‘little lunch’, a concept that never made sense to me), is typically a plain pastry and coffee.\u00a0 In Paris last June with\u00a0 Natalie,\u00a0 above,\u00a0 we had petite\u00a0 dejeuner in one of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,46,48,49,45],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-coffee","tag-croisannt","tag-dog","tag-julia-child","tag-paris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marigoldonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marigoldonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marigoldonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marigoldonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marigoldonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/marigoldonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/marigoldonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marigoldonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marigoldonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marigoldonline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}