the Moose is a skinny four legged aminal that requires constant feeding. Favorites include bread/dessert/CHOCOLATE/seafood/cheese cheese CHEESE. and more chocolate.
Breakfast in Paris...pain au choc, pain au raisin, plus Maman Moose's freshly squeezed orange juice. Food procurement radius - 500 meters.
(some bûche de Noël from a bakery in Paris)
In Paris every major residential blvd (m.r.b) has at least two patisseries offering the std pains du jour plus bat breads galore. Bread is important and no Parisian worth his salt wants to travel for it. Freshness is important (how dare you sell a croissant from the morning in the afternoon??) as is price (but this thing used to cost 2 Francs?? how dare you charge me 2 Euros?!). Around Christmas the patisseries are often loaded with gâteau gâteau and more gâteaux like petite bûche de Noël or handmade chocs that attract the Moose like a deer in headlights.
Breakfast in Taipei...In Taipei the density of bakeries is approx 1 per m.r.b. Let's face it, bread and gâteau are the foods of the Mooses not Juices. That doesn't mean one has to run far for bread - only fat lazy Mooses that dislike their corner bakeries are due for exercise.
(pic of a bakery near my house in Taipei) The average bakery bakes 3-4 times a day (the schedule is usually posted) and uses probably half the amt of beurre in its products than the Parisian patisserie. You're also much less likely to find chocolate coupled with bread, but almost everything else ranging from cheese/vegetables/red beans/almonds/hotdogs(?!) may be used and it's best to check the labels before biting your way to surprise.
btw it's not hard to find croissants but for some reason baguettes have never caught on. This might be because Taiwanese people don't consider bread as part of a meal - it's more like a dessert or snack instead. A real breakfast means
mantous and dumplings and drinks made of
soybeans or rice. The food is usually made to order in the front of the shop and served piping hot to waiting customers. No idea how a Moose would react to this, but there's definitely no beurre in any of this, it's mostly vegetarian friendly, and -I- love it :)
(also, the local 7-Elevens stock a full range of breads and sandwiches delivered daily so that would fit the bill for a Moose on the run)
Lunch is up next... it's not easy feeding such an exotic aminal around the clock!
From the NYTimes, a picture of fortune cookie and her long lost Japanese Mom.
I saw the hottest striped pants in slate at my favorite boutique last week. Riffing through the stack for size, the only numbers I saw were 25, 26 and 27.
I just destroyed two big bowls while trimming in the studio :(
(some bûche de Noël from a bakery in Paris)
(pic of a bakery near my house in Taipei) The average bakery bakes 3-4 times a day (the schedule is usually posted) and uses probably half the amt of beurre in its products than the Parisian patisserie. You're also much less likely to find chocolate coupled with bread, but almost everything else ranging from cheese/vegetables/red beans/almonds/hotdogs(?!) may be used and it's best to check the labels before biting your way to surprise.
