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The Flavors of Paris blog is full of insider tips and recommendations to make your Parisian experience easy and authentic. You will learn where to eat with the locals, where the best shopping and the best restaurants are, and how to find boutiques and food markets for the best food shopping in Paris as well as some musings about French culture.
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🎄Parisian Christmas Markets 2024: Your Ultimate Guide ✨
From Notre Dame to Saint-Germain-des-Prés, find the perfect Parisian Christmas market with our curated list of top picks. Ah, the festive season in Paris begins… A time when the city transforms into a sparkling wonderland of twinkling lights, sweet aromas of mulled wine and roasting chestnuts in the streets. From handcrafted treasures to delicious treats, the Christmas markets in Paris offer an enchanting experience for all who wander through their charming stall, but they a
Flavors of Paris Team
Nov 22, 2023
A Beginner's Guide To Understanding Champagne
For the past twelve years, people have been showing up for #WorldChampagneDay, an international phenomenon created to celebrate the bubbly that the world has come to know and love. From Champagne showers, victory celebrations, to a classy pyramid, it’s been deeply ingrained in our culture that this sparkling wine is analogous with happiness. And each year on the fourth Friday of October, the global community shares in the joy of a bottle. To participate, all you have to do i
Lisa R
Oct 20, 2021
How A Perfumer Creates A Fragrance
“When developing a perfume for someone else – an individual or brand – I also rely on empathy, an understanding and sharing of another person’s feeling, until it becomes mine too." - INTRODUCING YOUR GUIDE TO FRENCH PERFUME - For French men and women, selecting the perfect perfume for a night out can be as important as ordering the first drink. It sets the tone for the rest of the evening and relaxes the mind. Most women in France have more than one perfume scent as it allows
Lisa R
Oct 6, 2021
The Origins of French Chocolate
"If French is the language of love, and chocolate is the epitome of divine indulgence, then French chocolate must equal some sort of...
Lisa R
Jul 6, 2021
The Earthly Delight Of Terroir
For those of us who have lived in France, walking along the cheese aisles in any other country is often proven to be a more or less disappointing experience. I left Paris weeks ago and scrambled my way back to my home country Canada due to the impending pandemic. The cheese options at grocery stores back home are...umm…“limited” (not to mention the disruption to the supply chain from COVID-19). Even on a good day, France can single-handedly take down anyone else in the cheese
Lisa R
Apr 13, 2020
Our List Of Some Uber Chic Easter Pastries In Paris
Chocolate always springs into our minds when we think of Easter treats. Chocolate, bunnies, hens and eggs and other wonderful creations are to be seen in sweet shops everywhere, but at Flavors of Paris decided to shake things up a little and seek out some super cool and creative Easter pastries for 2019. Here is a small selection of some Parisian treats which charmed us this year: Elegant Praline Easter Egg by Bo&Mie The pastry creations by chef, Timothy Breton are well know
Lisa R
Apr 1, 2020
The Art Of Perfume And Its Gourmet Ingredients
Innumerable plants used in perfumery are edible. Several common groups are citrus (including lemon, lime, mandarin, sweet orange, tangerine), herbs (sweet basil, spearmint, rosemary, Dalmatian sage, tarragon) and spices (cardamom, cinnamon, clove, pepper, vanilla). The term ‘gourmand’ in perfumery refers to fragrances of gastronomic inspiration, such as Paul Poiret’s Le Fruit Défendu (1918), an accord of peach, vanilla, and tonka bean, Escada’s Chiffon Sorbet (1993), a tutti-
Lisa R
Feb 10, 2020
A Free And Refreshing Way To Wet Your Whistle In Paris
While visiting Paris, on your wanderings through the city, you may have passed by some of these gems in public parks, in the streets and squares throughout the neighborhoods of Paris and not have realized that they are there for you to use. Today there are 120 of these cast iron, elegant beauties, mostly colored forest green, but you will spot some in more avant-garde colors in bold red, pink, blue and yellow, located in the 13th district in the south west of Paris. PLEASE NO
Lisa R
Sep 4, 2019
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