Many holiday specials have now made their way to our shelves, including three dozen treats we are offering for the first time this year. I am delighted to introduce them to you today!
Our new holiday specials already in stock include cookies in festive boxes and tins, scrumptious chocolate delicacies, candied fruits, fruit jellies, spice assortments, and four lovely advent calendars.
Make sure to order soon if anything catches your fancy. I know from experience that some of our specials will run out long before the holiday season starts in earnest!
Marianne Prébet
Founder & Gourmand-in-Chief
P.S. Our October promo will end soon: 15% off our third quarter best sellers with the code TOPQ3. Don't miss out!
Just in: more French favorites
Among the French favorites recently added to our shelves you will find Brets jalapeño & chedddar and sauce pommes frites potato chips from Britanny, Esprit Provence extra virgin olive oil with Provence herbs, Martin-Pouret mustards, Ortiz canned fish, Generous organic gluten-free cookies from Belgium, Léonard Parli calisson cream, Meneau organic mango and passion fruit smoothie, and charming Paris-themed stationery items by Paperways.
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!
The Denver Art Museum presents The 19th Century in European and American Art.
In Fort Worth, the Kimbell Art Museum presents: Photography's First Century: Masterworks from the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Through January 17, 2027.
The Minneapolis Institute of Art presents Paris Couture. Through January 17, 2027.
L'Alliance New York presents the 2026 edition of its acclaimed Crossing the Line festival. Through December 5.
L'Alliance New York presents its new film series, Version restaurée / Restored Version. Through December 8.
In New York, the Met Museum presents A King's Carpet: Louis XIV and the Savonnerie. Through March 5, 2028.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents Rodin's Hands. Through January 31, 2027.
The Saint Louis Art Museum presents Women Impressionists and the Land. Through January 10, 2027.
In Washington, DC Marc Chagall's magistral Orphée mosaic in on view in the sculpture garden of the National Gallery of Art.
Try out Nestlé's recipe for Halloween chocolate pie
Scary yummy!
Ingredients (serves 6-8)
255g dark baking chocolate
2 sheets puff pastry
120g almond powder
1 whole egg
1 egg yolk
40g sugar
50g soft unsalted butter
Directions
Preheat oven to 180ºC (350ºF).
Cut a large pumpkin shape in each puff pastry sheet. Cut bat shapes in the leftovers.
Melt the dark baking chocolate. Set aside about 1/5 of the melted chocolate. Add in the almond powder, butter, sugar, and 1 egg to 4/5 of the melted chocolate. Spread the mixture on one of the puff pastry pumpking shape.
Cut the mouth and two eyes in the other puff pastry pumpkin shape and cover the chocolate mixture with it.
Brush the egg yolk on the pie. Bake 25 minutes.
Bake the bats 10 minutes and coat them in the rest of the melted chocolate.