Comments on: une pièce montée

By: paris breakfasts

paris breakfasts — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:57:26 +0000

A French friend was trying desperately to explain “ams tram gram” so it’s nice to finally get what she was after!
Gerard Mulot does a lovely macaron piece montee with multi-colored pastel macs – they’re slightly smaller than you’re average “petite” mac I was interested to learn.
Why not celebrate such an important day with cakes and partying?
I hope the Tadpole gets to wear a flowered wreath…

By: PJ Carz

PJ Carz — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:17:27 +0000

Feeling pretty clueless right now. When did you say that you and The Boy were atheists? I rarely miss a post, and when I have, I go back and read the archives. But this escapes me.

I wonder what else might I have missed?

Still loving the book. Am at the place where you have just met Jim in Rennes at the concert. Luscious reading, thanks.

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:16:38 +0000

As lots of people probably know, the French also call a “piece montée” a “croque en bouche”. However, when my sister got married, her English mother-in-law referred to it constantly as a “coque en bouche”. The image this created in my head meant that I eventually had to leave the reception for fear of embarrassing myself with my inappropriate laughter.

PS I just discovered your blog at the weekend thanks to the Sunday Times (bought by my own Meetic boy to stop me whinging all day about how much childbirth is going to hurt – I’m currently bored at home all day awaiting an overdue baby). Anyway, many congrats on your success – I wish I was innovative enough to find a way to make a living that doesn’t involve sitting in an office all day (I was on the Assedic for a couple of years once, but instead of doing something useful like writing a book I just turned into Frank Gallagher off of Shameless).

Incidentally, I thought I’d use my newfound spare time to sort out getting pacsed (apparently your taxes for that year are halved if you do it on or about the middle of the year – I’m just an old romantic me), so I waddled off down to the Marie yesterday to make enquiries. Crikey – talk about complicated – many documents required from many different sources, all translated by a certified translator and all with a seemingly short validity period. Thus good luck with the whole marriage thing – I imagine you will have a similar rigmarole ahead but probably worse.

And finally, enjoy your trip to York – I worked in the King’s Arms many years ago when the landlord was a bloke called Ian – great pub as I recall and very nice city altogether!

By: Passante

Passante — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:47:38 +0000

#36, Jen: I am not in a position to say what Petite Anglaise and her daughter celebrate on and around Dec. 25. I don’t know them. Your comment, I read somewhere on your blog that you celebrated CHRISTmas. If you are an athiest [sic] what on earth were you celebrating? Just curious, with its insistent capitalisation, came across — to me anyway — as suggesting that the Christians invented the particular celebration and therefore had exclusive rights to it, when, in fact, they simply imposed their religion on a perfectly respectable pagan festival.

By: Jan Jacklin

Jan Jacklin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:44:30 +0000

Petite
Thanks for my introduction to memes and tags. I had no idea what you were talking about – then I followed the links and spent a very funny hour or so laughing out loud as I jumped from blog to blog … reading snippets of what’s on everyone’s coffee table/bedside table. Hilarious.