It's that time of the year when you may catch yourself humming April in Paris out of the blue. If Paris is calling you, our selection of treats celebrating the City of Light is the next best thing to booking a trip!
Our April in Paris selection features a variety of Paris-themed cookies, candies, and chocolates; La Parisienne jam by Francis Miot; and beautiful tea towels and tableware.
We have also included charming stationery, home accents, pouches, and key rings to say Paris, je t'aime in style!
Enjoy the season wherever you are. Take good care of yourself.
Marianne Prébet
Founder & Gourmand-in-Chief
Just in: more French favorites
Among the French favorites recently added to our shelves you will find St Michel savory biscuits, André Laurent Cœur de Chou choucroute, La Dunkerquoise vanilla-filled waffles, Pierrot Gourmand Cocorico gummy candies in the shape of beloved French icons, Nina's Paris loose leaf tea in pretty tins, Maffren fruit and pastry-shaped marzipan, and scrumptious dark and milk chocolate pétanque balls by Le Chocolatier Sablais.
If there is a French treat you would like to find on our website, please share your craving with us.
Suggestions for your French agenda
There is plenty of exciting French cultural events all around America. Enjoy your picks!
Chicago's Art Institute presents Matisse's Jazz: Rythms in Color. Through June 1.
The Cleveland Museum of Art presents Manet & Morisot. Through July 5.
The Denver Art Museum presents The 19th Century in European and American Art.
In Kansas City the Nelson-Atkins Museum presents Monet's Garden and the Secret Language of Flowers. Through April 19.
L'Alliance New York presents its new film series, The Fantastic Realism of Georges Franju. Through April 14.
In Washington, DC the National Gallery of Art presents Mary Cassatt: An American in Paris. Through August 30.
In Washington, DC Marc Chagall's magistral Orphée mosaic in on view in the sculpture garden of the National Gallery of Art.
Try out our recipe for chouquettes
25 cl (1 cup) water
100 grams (7 Tbsp) butter, cut into small chunks
150 grams (1⅓ cup) all purpose wheat flour
1 Tbsp sugar
½ tsp salt
½ tsp baking powder
1 pouch vanilla sugar
3 large eggs
pearl sugar
Preheat oven to 210ºC (410ºF), only 190ºC (375ºF) for a convection oven.
In a small saucepan, bring water and butter to the boil. Remove from heat, pour flour, salt, and baking powder at once and stir energetically with a wooden spoon until the mixture is smooth and pulls away from the sides of the pan.
Let dough cool for a moment then add sugar and eggs, one by oneScoop up heaps of dough roughly the size of a walnut with a spoon and use another spoon to scrape them off onto a buttered baking tray. (You will need 2 trays for this quantity). Press nuggets of pearl sugar all over the top and sides of each heap). Bake for about 20 minutes or until the chouquettes have turned to a nice golden color.