Books for Children Run Amok Downtown

ps. these windows weren't really anything to do with children's books......

they just looked like them....sort of......

Alice wears a chic black dress and a blank expression.

But shouldn't she be playing in a garden?

Can't which book exactly-- but surely if they added a beret

this would be the costume of M. Le French Artist circa 1953.

Has Babar turned green and moved to the the

Meatpacking district from Celesteville?

Witches, of course, are never fat in fairy tales.

That's why they are so eager to devour children.

In the grown-up world things are different.

(See below.)

Virtue and Delight

New York turns perfectly ordinary people into food snobs  -- --simply because everything you could ever desire and then some is available to you almost every minute of the day.

Blogging turns perfectly ordinary people into the sort of weirdos who take pictures of their lunch.

Smoked salmon tartine at La Pain Quotitien.

New  lunch special at the same place. Tuscan white beans, bread soaked in olive oil, frissee, parma ham. Yum.

Now for the really good stuff.

To cut to the chase. 

Chelsea Market. Brownies, blondies, brownies of every flavor you could dream of (mocha, white chocolate, caramel etc etc) in big sizes and tiny. People say, "I don't really do sweet things but just a taste....." Ha!

Pat invites me behind the scenes at the Fat Witch bakery. This is my lucky day.

Such a cheery, plump contented witch who now pops up all over the place even on tea.

Middle aged women giggle. A fat witch they say: ah that's me.

I think green tea is meant to be good for you.

ps.  My favorite is the white chocolate brownie.