Le marché aux fleurs (Elizabeth II) in Paris (1)
« Located in the île de la Cité, on Place Louis Lépine between the Notre-Dame Cathedral and Sainte-Chapelle chapel, the flower market has attracted avid gardeners and curious passersby since 1830. Both covered and open-air, the market is mainly formed by pavilions from the 1900s. Their selection is huge: seasonal flowers, exotic flowers, orchids, plants,…
Parisian pastries 2/2
The Flan pâtissier is a flan (an egg cream beaten with milk and baked in an oven) put on a short pastry. « Baba au rhum is a light cake raised with yeast, containing raisins and dried fruits and soaked in a rum syrup. » The Amandine tart also called Bourdaloue tart is a creation…
Parisian pastries 1/2
Chouquettes are small choux pastries with pearl sugar. The choux pastry dated from the 16th century and was invented by the Italian Popelini who was the pastry cook of the French Queen Catherine de Médicis (1519-1589). In 1760, Jean Avice (French pastry cook of the head of state Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord and at the head…
Graceful young woman
John William godward’s painting and my patterns.
In the ancient times
George Lawrence Bulleid’s painting and my pattern. George Lawrence Bulleid was a Victorian painter belonging to the academic art movement.
