Word: chocolat
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...complications come into focus at the Bonpoint creative studio on Wednesdays, when French schoolchildren have the day off. Like all Paris fashion houses, Bonpoint has a roster of "house models" who are paid (in pains au chocolat and clothing vouchers) to do fittings. First there's a story, maybe a moment on someone's lap, and if ever there are tears or fussing, the fitting is called...
...perfection. Placido - more baroque, a little bit twisted, crazy and sexy. For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style. New York city-based chef Daniel Boulud CREATED a confection called "DIVA renee AU CHOCOLAT." What's it like having a dessert named after you? It is too many calories! And with my face lasered on the front of the dessert, it is hard for me to look at that and then eat it anyway...
...YORK--BASED CHEF DANIEL BOULUD CREATED A CONFECTION CALLED "DIVA RENEE AU CHOCOLAT." WHAT'S IT LIKE HAVING A DESSERT NAMED AFTER YOU? It is too many calories! And with my face lasered on the front of the dessert, it is hard for me to look at that and then eat it anyway...
...chocolate was the exotic new import from South America. (A Frenchman reportedly opened the first chocolate-drinking house in London in 1657.) As reimagined for 21st century America, the lounges--there are now dozens in the U.S.--range from elegant Continental-style establishments like Manhattan's La Maison du Chocolat, where a cup of Guayaquil or Caracas hot cocoa sets you back $7, to the more mass-market Ethel's Chocolate Lounges, created by Mars Inc., the U.S.'s No. 2 candy vendor. Mars has launched three Ethel's in Chicago this year and plans on three more...
...launch any tea rooms or keep a diary. Oh, and he isn't Paul West. His real name is Stephen Clarke, and he's a 45-year-old Oxford-educated Briton who works as an editor in Paris and has lived there for 11 years. "I saw the movie Chocolat," he says, "and the idea of a British woman opening a chocolate shop and working in a French village seemed so wrong, so un-French. Then I read [Peter Mayle's bestselling] A Year in Provence and noticed that the first word is 'January.' I thought, No! The French year...