PARIS (Reuters) – An urban agriculture initiative to make Paris more environmentally sustainable, mainly through farming on the capital’s rooftops, has been such a success that the mayor is unveiling a new round of projects this week.Rooftop farming has boomed in the past years from New York to Tokyo via London and Paris [ . . . ]
More: Post office workers grow vegetables, breed chickens on Paris rooftop “farm”
Paris authorities have voted to remove an insulting sign from the 18th century that shows a black servant under the words Happy Negro. But some argue it should remain.
More at: Paris votes to take down ‘Happy Negro’ street sign but should it stay? – The Local
On the southern edge of Paris, a five-thousand-square-foot basement houses the city’s lost possessions. The Bureau of Found Objects, as it is officially called, is more than two hundred years old, and one of the largest centralized lost and founds in Europe. Any item left behind on the Métro, in a museum, in an airport, or found on the street and dropped, unaddressed, into a mailbox makes its way here, around six or seven hundred items each day. Umbrellas, wallets, purses, and mittens line the shelves, along with less quotidian possessions: a wedding dress with matching shoes, a prosthetic leg, an urn filled with human remains. The bureau is an administrative department, run by the Police Prefecture and staffed by very French functionaries—and yet it’s also an improbable, poetic space where the entrenched French bureaucracy and the societal ideals of the country collide [ . . . ]
Read Full Story: The Peculiar Poetry of Paris’s Lost and Found | The New Yorker
Dominik Hernler experienced a unique wakeboard session on the River Seine.
Watch video: Dominik Hernler wakeboarding Paris **video** | Red Bull
Paris is packed with ideal picnic locations, but where to buy the food and wine? Here are our selection of the best stops for portable provisions (cheese, charcuterie, breads, sweets, prepared foods and bottles) near our favorite picnic spots. [ . . . ] More: Best Picnic Spots & Provisions – Paris by Mouth
PARIS, Sept 2 — It’s been a big week for chef Alain Ducasse, who announced the opening of another restaurant in Paris and released the trailer for a new documentary hitting French cinemas next month.
Ducasse, who holds 18 Michelin stars for 20-plus restaurants around the world, created a buzz in the French food world this week after revealing plans to open a new restaurant called Spoon in Paris at the end of the month.
The opening revives one of Ducasse’s former restaurant concepts Spoon Food & Wines, which launched in 1998 as a fusion restaurant and featured flavors from around the world. Diners could mix and match sauces and sides for their main course in a form of deconstructed gastronomy [ . . . ] Read more at : Chef Alain Ducasse headlines new documentary, Paris restaurant | Eat/Drink | Malay Mail Online
