Thursday

STARBUCKS AND PARIS

An American couple wearing shorts, untied sneakers, and baseball caps (mercifully, not turned backwards), walked into a fancy chocolate shop on the Left Bank.  They each were toting hefty venti lattes from the nearby Starbucks.  In Paris, this is like someone hauling a gallon jug of milk into the middle of Tiffany on Fifth Avenue and taking swigs from it.
 
~ David Lebovitz, The Sweet Life in Paris