Early crocus tommasinianus in bloom--and spring is in the air.
I'm off to Paris for a few days. I'll be visiting a few stellar spice shops, inhaling rare perfumes, and tasting spice-scented truffles from Patrick Roger, patisserie from Sadaharu Aoki and more. There'll be notebooks to fill from Papier +, talk with spice merchants, dinner at Le Chateaubriand and maybe a lunch at Le Comptoir, plus I must see Jean Nouvel's new Musee du Quai Branly. Reviews have been mixed, but I can't resist the idea of a vertical jardin of 15,000 plants from around the globe.
It's raining today, but for me, Paris will always be the City of Light.