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Paris: Tie Up Your Chien In Style
The French may have the most untenable socialist economy in Europe, short of Greece, or at least be in the top of the most ridiculous, but they add style to even the most unexpected areas, like the place you leave your dog outside a shop. This was on the rue du Sevres, a few blocks from the Duroc Métro.

Gregg and I had lunch nearby with our friends E, M, and Pierre at Le Midi-Vins, where we had a fantastic shitake mushroom appetizer with an egg yolk and some coarse sea salt on it.

(No time to go to the fab resale stores nearby, Chercheminippes -- and also a bad thing to do when you have a man with you who finds that shopping for anything but electronics or food makes him itch.)

Of course, Gregg's more than prepared in the electronics department. In fact, I think he could rewire half of Paris with the cables he brought with him "just in case." (Love that about a man, and my man in particular.)

After lunch, Gregg and E and I went wine-tasting with Pierre at the annual Salon des Vignerons Independents -- the show of the independent wine sellers of France -- at the vast Porte de Versailles. Had some dry muscat that I loved from Domaine Pain de Sucre. (Didn't know it came in something other than sweet, but it does. Unfortunately, it's not sold outside of France.)

wine show photos by Gregg Sutter

A dry white wine that wine afficionado and novelist Peter Leonard recommended to us that we bought at Monoprix (the Target with food of Paris) the other night to have with the dinner Gregg made me is Picpoul. I think this bottle I picked out was only 4 euros, and was very good. Never been disappointed by Picpoul yet, in the States or here.

Oh, and on a globally frugal note, I now not only have a Ralph's supermarket frequent shopper card but one from Monoprix. Gregg is off with the card now, but these are the little keychain thingies.

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