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Part love letter to New York, part love letter to Paris, and total devotion to all things sweet. Hello, My Sweets is a personal and moveable feast thats a treasure map for anyone who loves fresh cupcakes and fine chocolate, New York and Paris, and life in general. Its about how the search for happiness can be as fleeting as a sliver of cheesecake and about how the life youre meant to live doesnt always taste like the one you envisioned. Organized into a bakers dozen of delicacies (and the adventures they inspired) that will tempt readers appetites, Hello, My Sweets is something to savor.

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Copyright Copyright 2012 by Amy Thomas Cover and internal design 2012 by - photo 1

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Copyright 2012 by Amy Thomas

Cover and internal design 2012 by Sourcebooks, Inc.

Cover design by Jennifer K. Beal Davis

Map illustrations Gary Hovland

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This book is a memoir. It reflects the authors present recollections of experiences over a period of years. Some names and characteristics have been changed, some events have been compressed, and some dialogue has been re-created.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Thomas, Amy

Paris, my sweet : a love letter in madeleines, chocolate, and croissants / Amy Thomas.

p. cm.

(pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Pastry--France--Paris--Guidebooks. 2. Paris (France)Guidebooks. I. Title.

TX773.T494 2012

641.8650944361dc23

2011042786

To my dear family and friends in the States who always supported me and - photo 3

To my dear family and friends in the States, who always supported me and enthused about my life abroad, but lured me back with their love.

To my new friends in Paris, who kept me sane and made the experience richer than ever expected.

To everyone who shared my adventure on the blog, cheering me on, offering support, and writing to me over the years. Your words meant more than youll ever know.

To all the brilliant bakers, ptissiers , and chocolatiers who took the time to share their stories and indulge my curiosity.

To Jessica Papin and Shana Drehs, who, through a special confluence of forces, made sure this book happened.

And to Allyson and Fred, without whom there would never have been a story to tell.

Merci.

Nine of every ten persons say they love chocolate. The tenth lies.

Anthelme Brillat-Savrin

And I have the firm belief in this now, not only in terms of my own experience but in knowing about the experience of others, that when you follow your bliss, doors will open where you would not have thought there were going to be doors and where there wouldnt be a door for anybody else.

If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

Joseph Campbell

Your good friend has just taken a piece of cake out of the garbage and eaten it. You will probably need this information when you check me into the Betty Crocker Clinic.

Miranda to Carrie on Sex and the City

Some names have been changed to protect peoples privacy I guess you could - photo 4

Some names have been changed to protect peoples privacy.

I guess you could say my story began with a bicycle and some bonbons At the - photo 5

I guess you could say my story began with a bicycle and some bonbons. At the time, it just seemed like a fun summer vacation: it was 2008, and I did an apartment swap with someone in Paris. I had already visited earlier that year, but what can I say? When the invitation to spend time in the City of Light (and Dark Chocolate) comes knocking, my first response is pourquoi pas?

Ive just always been one of those girls. I spent a college semester in Paris, and it was then I fell in love with the citys beauty and graceand Nutella street crepes. When I returned to the States, I wore silk scarves and a black beret; the only thing missing from my clichd uniform were the Gauloises cigarettes.

I binged on French films, schooling myself in nouvelle vague directors, falling especially hard for Eric Rohmer, before contemporary movies like The City of Lost Children and Amlie seduced me. I studied the Lost Generation, reading Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Janet Flanner, and built a mini-library so Id never be far from Paris. I had books about cats in Paris, dogs in Paris, expats in Paris; Parisian interiors, Parisian gardens, and Parisian cuisine, organized by neighborhood; bistros of Paris, ptisseries of Paris, and shopping in Paris. I became a regular at a caf in my neighborhood in San Francisco simply because it served caf au lait in little bowls instead of mugs, and I had more Eiffel Tower tchotchkes than I am comfortable admitting.

I was just another Francophile, like you. Until that summer of 2008.

That trip was the first time I was in Paris during the summer, and it was absolutely amazing. I loved that it was light out until after 10:00 p.m., giving me several extra hours to roam back-alley streets and sit by the Seine. I was excited to discover new neighborhoods like Bercy and Canal Saint-Martin and new bistronomy restaurants like Le Verre Vol and Le Comptoir du Relais. I got sucked into the semi-annual sales, les soldes , and hooked on Vlibs, the public bike-sharing system.

And then there were all the chocolatiers .

By that time, I was just as obsessed with sweets as I was Paris. I had a column in Metro newspaper called Sweet Freak and a blog by the same name. I knew every bakery, dessert bar, gelateria , tea salon, and chocolatier in New York City. When I traveled, I built my itinerary around a towns must-visit sweet spots.

So naturally during that week in Paris, I researched the citys best chocolatiers, mapped out a circuit, and then Vlibed between eight of them. It was exhilarating and exhausting, not to mention decadent. It was a chocoholics dream ride. I wrote about my Tour du Chocolat for the New York Times , and it went on to become a top-ten travel story for the year. As I was secretly plotting a way to spend more time eating chocolate in Paris, the in-house recruiter of the ad agency where I worked casually walked into my office one day and asked if I wanted to move to Paris. I was getting transferred to write copy for the iconic fashion label Louis Vuitton. It all happened so suddenly, and seemed so magical, that I had to ask: was Paris my destiny or sheer force of will?

I guess it goes to show that you just never know where life will take you. You search for answers. You wonder what it all means. You stumble, and you soar. And, if youre lucky, you make it to Paris for a while. Heres what happened when I did.

Can one question change your life Im willing to bet a twenty-five-piece box of - photo 6

Can one question change your life? Im willing to bet a twenty-five-piece box of Jean-Paul Hvin bonbons on it.

In the fall of 2008, I was sitting in my office, living what I considered to be a pretty great life. I was single, owned a cute apartment in the East Village, and I was braving New Yorks dating scene. I had the best friends in the world and a jam-packed social calendar. I enjoyed my job as an advertising copywriter. But what I really loved were my moonlighting dalliances: exploring bakeries, dessert bars, gelaterias, and chocolate boutiques and documenting my delicious discoveries for my Sweet Freak blog and Metro newspaper column, along with other local magazines and newspapers. You could say my life was good: easy, fun, comfortable .

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