Links Du Jour
People are going nuts over Ici ice cream, in Berkeley. Mary Canales rocks. Go eat her ice cream.
Tell her I said hi.
Not to upstage the timely importance of baby Suri, a reader sends me a link to this (a bit too) juicy history of Chez Panisse from Vanity Fair.
Um, thanks for sharing, JT.
Spend a week in Gascony, without leavin’ your laptop.
A chocolatier, looking at the comments to a recent interview, announces to me he’s single…and looking.
David fears making the announcement on his blog will cause his traffic to spike, and cause his server to crash.
(Chocolatier offers to send chocolate bars studded with bacon bits. David accepts.)
Zagat Guide to Paris restaurants for 2006-2007 is released. Big party at George V with lots of free Champagne and mingling with top Paris chefs. Taillevent is still #1.
David wonders why French web sites always have that God-awful music, and waits for invitation to lunch.
Homemade ginger ale wows Paris.
Skype announces that all calls to fixed phone lines in France for SkypeOut users will be free through the end of 2006.
KitchenAid offers blenders for just $39. Also announces ice cream making-attachment for European-model KitchenAid mixers.
Louisa shows how to turn espresso upside-down. Then eat it.
Amazon tell me,“Go build yer own store!“
Adam & Family get shafted by the Powers That Be at Le Cirque.
Owner’s son writes a tearful response….which fails to elicit sympathy.