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hypothermia

I think we decide to feel the moment. Or we deny the moment. Sometimes that is good sometimes that is bad. But all things happening around us are usually a projection of many ignored/not ignored moments. And then we wake up and we're like: OMG, how did this happen? That is exactly what is happening across the pond. That being said... This whole week was an endless spiral of this. I am very impressed with all the ladies that went out and marched. I also really hope they have a plan how to proceed. This is what I have to say. I mean, what Mr. Steinbeck had to say. 

Père Lachaise cemetery on Friday. State of my body and mind: hypothermia. 
It was a very cold week here in Paris. You know when you wake up and see wonderful sunny day, and you open the window and feel like the inside of your mouth is turning to ice. That is how I felt the first day of this cold wave. Everything is so much easier when the sun is included. It's fantastic. You just need to layer it up. Like I had a thin wool sweater, thick sweatshirt and a fur coat. It was o-k. Almost a bit chilly.   

Frozen. 
I make amazing green juice - every day for over 4 weeks now! It's easy when you have a juicer, obviously - and all the ingredients of green juices are easy to clean (unlike carrots and beetroots). So I mix:

- one lemon
- half apple (on the second half you put lemon juice and store it the fridge - when an apple is lemon juiced (?! - meaning covered with lemon juice) it doesn't get brown)
- parsley (a handful)
- a few "flowers" of broccoli
- kale (max 2 leaves)
- ginger (try peeling it with a spoon - yes spoon. You're welcome)
- celery branches (one or two)

This is usually enough for 0.3l of juice. I usually consume it while I'm waiting for my lunch to be ready - so on an empty stomach. It goes straight to the blood and my body thinks it's a soup. Ok, I make a lot of soups as well..but that's a different story. 

What are the changes I feel? Well, I feel healthy. I don't know if it's a placebo but it works anyhow and my body seems happy. Try it if you have a juicer! Amazing! 


tastier than it looks. 
If you wanna invite me out for a dinner - it's pretty easy. I love everything. Except maybe Mexican food. To much bell pepper everywhere. Chipotle can be a solution in that case. BUT if you wanna impress me let's do Indian or Chinese. I know - sexy. But I just love it! Steph had her birthday and we went to KOKO restaurant. I just think we need to start producing rakija in those one cups. Sake is not my kind of a drink...but hey - they were many things to celebrate and when in Japanese restaurant... I also really loved this blue on the packaging! Piercing!


I will end this with him. Cause he's half good half man. When you're a bit stuck with your plans...he'll help you! I promise! 

Kwalito!

I generally believe that our food could have munch better quality only if we would demand that. We are the customers and we CAN demand that. We can ask for meat with less male hormones and fruit with less female hormones and veggies with less pesticides and we can organize protest against all the "E"s in out food, but we simply don't have time for that... It's not that we don't care - we don't have time for that.

And that's sad. Because we are what we eat. And we are not getting any younger. We need to balance our meals. We need to eat healthy things. We need to be more aware what is in our food, what exactly we are consuming.
Green one is the good "cop", red one is the bad "cop". The green one is saying to the red one that they should go and continue informing people about the "good" food and "bad" food by scanning the bar codes. 

There is a lovely french application, called Kwalito. You go to the supermarket, and scan the barcode of the chosen product. BAM! - Kwalito informs you what allergens that chosen product has. It also informs you what else is inside - eggs, emulgators, traces of nuts.... It is great for you if you are vegan or vegetarian. It is great for you if you are gluten or lactose intolerant. It is great for you if you care about your health. And also it is free! (in French, but free)

"But stop eating candies - they are full of artificial colors!"


One day, Aleksandra, one of the two master minds behind the whole project, asked me to do a small drawing every week for the Kwalito. She told me the story why they started the whole project and why they designed the whole application. I listened to her and said "YES" straight away. Since May, I am spending my Thursday with two funny, and well informed gentlemen (in the drawings). We call them les Kwalutins. I am drawing their stories and places they visited. Often, very often, they remind me how easy it is to choose healthy food. And often they remind me that I don't do that. Now, we have no excuses - healthy food search (or the search for food that suits you) just got easier... At least in France ;)


Green one: "There's nothing better that the fresh fish"
Red one: "You can also find it in the supermarket and cut in the fish fingers"

Kwalito stories are out every Friday!

not an instagram photo



Planet Sushi day on an empty Tuesday afternoon

cinnamon.


that diet bread with sesame+salted butter+jam+cinnamon=breakfast

thoughts about aperitivo.


my way back home with Francesca. we bought pear and once again she showed me the secret of aperitivo. she sprinkled parmigano cheese and lime (can be lemon, too) on pear and put raisins around. amazing sour and sweet taste!

this, on this photo, is sicily in the sunset. 
heading there tomorrow. 

pizza once again



This restaurant is near metro stop Parmentier (again). You go up the road on Avenue de la Republique and on your right side you will find interesting pizzas with prices between 4 and 6 euros for a slice... Fat pizza -.-

sugar white



start wearing purple...




Tuileries in the springtime. Pierre Herme macarons. Green one is with mint. Pearl one is with rose. Blue nail polish is Mavala in Blue Mint (one coat. looks more refreshing).

Tuileries...


Beautiful sunset just in between Bernice Abbott/AiWeiWei/Jimmy Robert's exhibition and ice-cream/frappe (I will never admit it where I ate it, Mathieu!)

I learned that it is not the most common thing to consume pate for breakfast. These people do not know what they r missing...

26 C



Its summer. Not spring. I am putting my sunblock. I am eating green.

We met for falafel, took a metro to really chic&superParisian part with a really nice second hand shop (well, it looked nice from the outside, it was closed - doooh, Sunday, lady, Sunday), then for a beer in park Luxembourg and up to 18th for a flea market in Rue Ramey. And then for watching pigeons in the park near by while eating some chocolate cookies. 

glorious.

Milano verde!







1 - first night in Milano, down in Morgan's bar... cocktail Sbagliato ♥ 
2 - Saturday morning. View from the apartment...
3 - Navigli district
4 - Stop following me, Mr. Presley
5 - behind Castello Sforcesco

Roma gialla!





1 - beautiful restaurant somewhere in Trastevere (if I remember well somewhere near via Mattonato)... They have nice street seats, and huge choice of really good pastas (and pizzas, btw), I recommend one with "porchini" and cheese. The one on the photo is pasta with spinach+shrimps. Yummy! 
2 - Tevere or Tiber is not a river for someone who spent his life on Danube... But stroll is as amazing!
3 - ok. food. again. We got a suggestion to take a walk in quartiere Monti (around Metro station Cavour) and then all of a sudden while we were looking at a map, Mari, my copilot heard a sentence from a handsome guy who was passing by: "Here is the place where they make the best cannoli siciliani in whole Rome". So we entered CuiriCuiri bar. And cannoli are...amazing. Again :)