Picnics in Paris, France

by John Aravosis (DC)
(America Blog)

Paris is picnics. But not the picnics Americans are accustomed to. In Paris, they often take place at night, starting around 7.30 or 8.30 and going until midnight or so.

In Paris, picnics are often in the dark. And they involve large quantities of wine, which is permitted in public, depending where you are, when you're there, and whether your picnicking or just being rowdy drunks.

For this picnic, two of my new friends were promo-ing some dessert recipes they're honing down for their new coffeehouse/bakery they hope to open early next year. Above is their cheesecake.

It's not as easy as you'd think to translate an American recipe into French. French butter, for instance, I learned tonight, has 2% more water than American butter. And the flour is different too. You need to therefore adjust your recipes to get things to turn out just right.

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