Potage maison

 

 

 

 

 

With yesterday's announcement of a stricter lockdown it was time for a potage campagnarde. 

 

Above: tureen of winter veggies - potatoes, sweet potatoes, turnips, more - thickened w/beef marrow and cream

 

Below: potatoes, sweet potatoes, turnips

 

 

 

 

 

Voilà l'ennemi!

A vintage poster enshrined in a Paris wine shop window.

 Above: before-after illustration of the ravages of alcohol; just beneath, drawings of healthy organs contrasted w/"organs of an alcoholic"

Soft as dawn

 

A soft morning light bathes the horizon from beneath rain clouds.

It's a new day.

A portrait artist

 Mask on chin, he waits in the cold.

Marrons glacés

With icy cold weather this small chestnuts-chocolat-chaud stand is like a mirage at the top of the butte.

 

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- In front of l'Église Saint-Pierre -

Chestnut season

'Tis the season... of roasted chestnuts.

Above: hand-warming marrons a.k.a. châtaignes at an outdoor market on the Left Bank

Monday: more marrons

Emilie in Paris

Not much is known about Emilie Mey, who came to Montmartre from Alsace with painter Théophile Steinlen, where they were married a few years later.

Above: sculpture of the couple in a loving embrace