Word: lait
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...aims to “[cultivate] an understanding of food from the ground up,” according to its Web site. “This place is really cute,” said Sarah T. Yang ’10 as she sipped a café au lait, adding that she might come back if she needed a place to study...
...Thanks to Hemingway’s lean, clean prose, images of Boulevard St. Germain and the Café des Amateurs filled my days. Stories of the writer hobnobbing with Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott Fitzgerald on the tree-lined streets of Paris made my café au lait-deprived heart turn the pages for more. Hemingway steered me through his time in Paris at a snappy pace, without belaboring any one point. This vision, however, is Paris without Dior sunglasses and Chanel-infused air: the café’s “yellowed poster stating...
...corridors by the critics' mail boxes, we hear of a picture that has seized some early viewers' imaginations and becomes a Word of Mouth hit. Then we beg the publicist for an extra screening. It's as if we learned that a cup of café au lait at some backwater dive was the Holy Grail. Gotta have a sip from that...
...please, let's not blame the machines, either. French and Italian cafes ditched the handmade espresso years ago for automation and don't seem to have suffered ennui because of it. You think Café Flore in Paris would lose its charm because it served automated café au lait? Je pense que no friggin' way. Sit down in Starbucks and enjoy a cup and some conversation? Sure, if you can manage to snag a seat from the WiFi squatters who have set up an office for the price of a latte. (Here's a suggestion: Set up joint outlets...
...interest in cycling began on a trip to Europe. No, it was not the day I spent sitting outside a caf in Paris sipping caf au lait and watching the Tour de France riders swoop by. Instead it was while sitting outside a caf in Florence sipping cappuccino (there was a lot of coffee drinking that trip), watching women commuting to work. They were cycling by in their fabulous outfits and their Prada pumps, and I decided that this was a sport I could get behind. But biking in Europe turned out to be a whole lot easier than biking...