Sunday is Macaroon Day in France :)

I know, enough with the macaroons already! But we cannot help ourselves...they are such delectable little morsels, so beautiful, so... darn happy! The French love them so much that Sunday, March 20 is the 5th Annual Macaroon Day in France! You can taste different macaroons all over Paris...if you happen to be there. If not, you can enjoy this video from Ladurée sharing their secrets (in French) to making the beloved macaroons in their famous kitchen. Be sure to visit their site too, it's a great little diversion at the end of a very difficult week for us all.

Enjoy!

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this is enjoyable, even in French, and the chef's kind of cute too...oh

the Kate Winslet bit at the beginning is in English:

click here to

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The Kissing Dilemma in France :) Explained

You can only imagine the fluster the uninitiated among us might feel on Valentine's Day in France...where kissing is already confusing!

is this one of those "air" kisses?

Whom do you kiss, and where? on the lips? the cheek? cheeks? hand? The opportunities for embarrassment are many. Here, then, is your guide to just how many kisses are expected depending on who the kisser and the kissee are, their ages, sex and social status, and finally, just where you are located in France.

The map is color-keyed to give the proper number of kisses depending on the departmente you are visiting, in order to avoid acute humiliation! The links will give you much more in-depth guidance to navigating these social waters in le Hexe!

French friends and readers, please feel free to weigh in with advice!!

link to: Combien de Bises? The Kissing Map of France

then there's the Chinese girl who wanted to kiss 100 men in Paris,

and did it...pictures on her blog

(where she got 220,000 hits in one day!)

sources: Frogsmoke, The Times Online

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