Lunchtime in Paris: Lunch in my new office

Food blogs Around the World

Algeria - Chef Zadi
Algeria and the Mediteranean (live from LA)
Australia - Space Wildschwein
affordable cookery to stay home for + organic gardening, humble homebrewing....
Australia - The Food Pornographer
My idol and my inspiration for all that is foodblogging. One of the very best.
France - Cuisine Quotidienne
Food and family from an American in France.
France - WCS Another American in France
From the Loire Valley.
Japan - It's My Lunch Blog
Excellent Bento archives from Japan.
UK Cornwall - The Cornish Pasty
The Compleat Pastypaedia - A compendium about the Cornish culinary icon
USA - Lunch
Some interesting lunches from NYC.
USA - The Tiffin Tin
BlogLily from San Francisco
USA - We Eat Lunch
Ragtag office workers meandering on the meaning of lunch. A very literary outlook on this new lunchblog.
Worldfood - Global Gastronomy
An amazing links collection from around the world. Whatever you want to make you'll find a recipe here.
Worldfood : Biggest Menu - Share your taste.
Restaurant reviews from all over the world with lots of food photos

Sites I like - food

Monster Munching
California Asian, need I say more...the epitome of good eating! Here's another one to put on your list of must consult everyday...it just all looks so delicious and yes, indeed, someway, someday I'm going to go and have lunch in Sunny SoCal.
Chow Times
This is so, so good! and it's Asian too. So in keeping with tradition that means good photos, lots of info and most especially good food! I can't believe I've only just discovered this fab blog.
Chubbypanda - The Epicurious Wanderer
Interesting, informative and thought provoking. Excellent photos (and lots of them too), restaurant reviews and some excellent recipes as well. This is a fairly new blog just started in August and has a decidely Asian (my favorite) flavor.
mmm-yoso!!!
Asian food blogs are the best and Kirk's blog is just outstanding. Based in San Diego this blog has lots of delicious photos and is an entertaining read as well; one of my favorites. Can't wait to get to San Diego. Bravo!

07 January 2008

Lunch in my new office

The place that I work for moved to new offices last month and so now every morning when I come out of the metro I see this guy:

Yup, it's George Washington conquering Paris!

And here he is again from a different perspective which is interesting because right behind him you will see the Musée Guimet (the Guimet Museum dedicated to Asian art) - link to the English version of the site.

And here's todays lunch: ham and cheese on a baguette, an apple tart, a diet coke, and a little macaroon that cost .60 euro cents (my restaurant tickets are for 8 euros, the lunch cost 7.50, and they don't give change so I had to get the macaron to make up the difference).

Parma ham and comté cheese on a baguette with some lettuce. (the comté link is in English if you are interested in learning more about this delicious cheese.)

An apple tart. I had to take the pictures outside because my new office doesn't get much natural light (and I'm not real happy about that either - if anybody's looking for a PA/assistant/secretary/translator in Paris please drop me a line, but only if I can have a nice bright office with a window and a mutuelle) - when the nice weather comes I will eat outside by the Seine which is right close by too.

A chocolat macaron...

And here is the inside. So, that was an ok lunch (with some culture thrown in - who knew there was a giant statue of Geo Washington right in the heart of Paris). I'm still getting used to this new area, on the down side there are no Asian take out places (hence my foray into Belleville this past weekend - I was really missing my Chinese takeout fix) but on the positive side we have an outdoor market on Wednesdays so maybe I will take some pictures of that soon.

Happy lunching!

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