A Sunday market

For years, especially when we lived in the Marais, many a Sunday morning found me with basket in hand, poking around for fresh herbs, seasonal vegetables, salts, charcuteries and fresh fish -- then topping it off with a salidou-smothered crêpe -- at the vast marché Bastille, a cook's dream.

Quiet Paris

Shuttered shops, less traffic: many consider August the best time to be in Paris.


August newsletter

Nouveautés

Profiling

A small terrier stands his ground.

Crêpes on a roll

Rolled-up buckwheat crêpe appetizers with different fillings: chorizo, camembert, goat cheese, smoked salmon; tarama dip; chilled brut apple cider from Brittany.

Breizh Café

"La crêpe autrement"

1 rue de l'Odéon 75006

Cool art #2

Palais de Tokyo

13 avenue du Président Wilson 75116

Below: entry to the exhibition is through an enormous doll's house

Cool art #1

Spacious Palais de Tokyo with its eclectic collection of modern art makes a refreshing escape from Paris' current "heat wave" - in quotes because next to Arizona where it gets so hot that skin sticks to the car seat it's almost refreshing

Palais de Tokyo

13 avenue du Président Wilson 75116

The baker's bike

Bicycle parked outside a bakery early a.m.