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Paris: The City of Lights Has a Brogue

By Nancy Griffin, Contributor
December / January 2005

December 1, 2004 by Leave a Comment

The master of the steaming griddle performs theatrical flourishes while preparing crêpes or gallettes in the window of a crêperie. Waves of pure chocolate cascade over the multiple tiers of a brass melting device in the window of a chocolaterie; shiny golden alligators that turn out to be beautiful loaves of bread chase their tails in the window of an artisan … [Read more...] about Paris: The City of Lights Has a Brogue

Paris: The City of Lights
Has a Brogue

By Nancy Griffin, Contributor
December / January 2005

December 1, 2004 by 2 Comments

The master of the steaming griddle performs theatrical flourishes while preparing crêpes or galettes in the window of a crêperie. Waves of pure chocolate cascade over the multiple tiers of a brass melting device in the window of a chocolaterie; shiny golden alligators that turn out to be beautiful loaves of bread chase their tails in the window of an artisan … [Read more...] about Paris: The City of Lights
Has a Brogue

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