The French capital offers lots of choices for treating yourself while respecting the environment. At La Maison Dr.Hauschka, for instance, which opened its first Paris salon a few months ago, you’ll find a complete selection of face and body treatments carried out by natural estheticians using treatments prepared from natural ingredients. Even the space is in harmony with nature as the architecture of the building and its interior decoration have been designed to respect the environment as much as possible.
If you’ve spent even a small amount of time in Paris, you know that the macaron is ubiquitous. And in a city of fastidious eaters, it’s significant that a single dessert has managed to win the hearts and minds of so many. But the debate rages on: who produces the best macaron of all? While Dalloyau and Lenôtre both make a commendable run at it, everyone knows that there are only two real contenders.
Philadelphia native Lindsey Tramuta came to Paris to go to school and stayed on because she fell in love with her now-husband Cédric. This marketing and communications professional for Je Ne Sais Quoi also loves food, music and reading. And she willingly shares her often-amusing views on life as an expat in Paris in her blog, Lost In Cheeseland. Now that she’s lived in Paris for a while, Lindsey has definite opinions on what constitutes her favorite places.
Parisien Salon readers are already familiar with Nichole Robertson and her stunning Paris photographs. And the blogosphere has had its compass pointed to her blog, Little Brown Pen, for quite some time. The self-described “girl of many words and few exclamation points” is also a writer, married to Evan and currently dwells with him and their two sons in a charming New Jersey hamlet–when they’re not spending a few months a year in Paris.
I used to think I was pretty good at French… until the day I actually moved here and realized just how nuanced the language is when it’s coming at you from all angles. Old people, young people, drunk people, foreign people—they all have their own distinct accents, cadences, and vocabularies. I quickly learned that my “A” in high school French Literature meant very little in the real world, and that making sense of real French would be a lifelong challenge. So far, it has been endlessly amusing.
Author David Lebovitz is, perhaps, the most read food blogger on the Web.In his food-based memoir, The Sweet Life in Paris, David shares stories about the challenges he encountered as he attempted to assimilate into Paris life after moving there in 2002. For that matter, this former San Francisco-based pastry chef is the author of several cookbooks – Room for Dessert, Ripe for Dessert, Ready for Dessert, The Great Book of Chocolate and The Perfect Scoop. In the nearly eight years since moving to Paris, David has gotten to know his adopted hometown inside and out, so he has definite opinions on the places he considers his favorites.
Here’s a tasty reason to nix your failed miserable attempts to diet from the New Year’s resolutions you know you weren’t going to keep and slip into a virtual diabetic coma (safely on your computer screen) while Richard Nahem tempts you with some delicious treats from the Paris sweet spot, Chez Bogato.
After seven months away, Tory Hoen is back in Paris and am greedily soaking up every minute of it. After two weeks, she’s slipped back into many of her happy habits, though Tory has come to realize that settling back into Parisian life does require a few active adjustments.
Parisien Salon’s Editor-in-Chief didn’t just fall in love with Paris the first time she visited the French capital; she realized she’d found her home. In the many years since, Linda Donahue has explored the nooks and crannies of her adopted home town, discovering hidden treasures she loves to share with visitors. And while she finds it difficult to pick “favorites” among her discoveries, Linda has narrowed them down for the sake of publication.
Printemps is lightning up the the dreary, gray winter with their delightful Alice in Wonderland windows. The store is celebrating the release of the new Tim Burton version of Alice in Wonderland, starring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter and Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, and has given free rein to a group of top designers to use their imagination to create their own Alice dress. Haider Ackermann, Manish Arora, Chloé, Ann Demeulemeester, Christopher Kane, Nicholas Kirkwood, Maison Martin Margiela, Bernhard Willhelm, and the late Alexander McQueen have done a fabulous job in making Alice current and oh, so chic.
With apologies to Miles Davis, it’s good to be kind of blue in Paris, especially when you look at these photographs taken by Nichole Robertson. Even on those days when the gray clouds threaten to obscure the sky, there’s plenty of blue to be found around the city. …See (and read) more here.
What does it take to have that certain Je Ne Sais Quoi when it comes to Paris style?
Nathalie Bui brings her creative energy to the Paris fashion scene with the opening of her own bouti
Fashionistas in Paris have discovered a relatively new mecca on the rue des Rosiers in the Marais.
Discover how the best-dressed women in Paris keep up appearances in winter.
Do women in their 40s have it better in Paris or in the U.S.?
Our Paris restaurant reviewer discovers a delicious neighborhood haunt in the 13th.
Even Parisians are willing to wait on line for a tasty treat from Ladurée.
Split between cultures, places. It’s the tale of the modern age. To write here in Paris, in Englis
Sondheim’s glorious musical ode to the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer’s Night is