4 Ave Rodin, our apartment entrance for 2/2014
We slept in this morning after being up for 24-hours on the journey here.  Pat made coffee and we skipped our usual Parisian breakfast, I know Paris with out a croissant  is like a day without sunshine, but there are many more in our future.  We have decided to get on a Parisian schedule so we when for lunch at 1230 a.  For lunch we selected Le Relais Du Bois, which is one of Alex’s (Owner) restaurant.  Pat took the more pedestrian approach with an Omelette « aux cèpes et champignons des bois and I Tranche de foie de veau à l’anglaise« avec pommes vapeur.  Besides saying the food was very good I will say we will visit it again before we leave.
After lunch we when to the grocery for stapes, milk, cream, lardons, paper towels and cereal for our off days. Â Then to the fruit and vegetable store so we can have Farmers salad for dinner. Of course we then went to Nicolas for a box of our favorite Le Petite Cote du Rhone. Â At about 1530 we when for a walk to check out the area shops beyond the everything that outside our door; butcher, fruit and vegetable, wine cheese, 2 bakeries, pastry and chocolate shops. Â We charged our metro card and of course encounter our first US bank screw up, even after notifying them we would be in Europe. Â It seems that credit card do not like two transaction back to back for the same exact dollar amount, so a call to Wells Fargo to get that problem resolved.
This evening after dinner we jumped on the #63 bus and headed over to the American Library for a Panel Discussion:
Patricia Wells at a Reading and Eating discussion at the American Library
Food writers Patricia Wells and Ann Mah will discuss their latest respective books, The French Kitchen Cookbook: Recipes and Lessons from Paris and Provence, and Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons on Food and Love from a Year in Paris.
This panel discussion will evoke their love of food, and French food in particular, and writing about it for different readerships. Patricia’s book is a beautiful recipe collection that goes beyond how to simply make the meals in its pages while Ann’s book explores the classics of French regions. Together, Patricia and Ann will have much to say and the evening promises to be enteraining and informative, if not delicious.
Ann Mah and Patricia Wells at the American Library in France
On the way back to the apartment Pat snapped a picture of the Eiffel Tower.
Home at 2100 for wine and music.
- Shot from the bus stop returning from the American Library
