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Subject: [Leica] Chocolat
From: afirkin at afirkin.com (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Sat Sep 20 13:58:56 2008

Thanks Gerry, and excellent recomendation, we visited it last week at the 
end of an Annie Leibowitz exhibition/retrospective. Its now in the throes of 
changing the guard. I might look again this week: its just across the 
river!!!!

Cheers

--- gwpics@googlemail.com wrote:

From: "Gerry Walden" <gwpics@googlemail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Chocolat
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:44:54 +0100

Alastair

If you have not done so yet, fit in a visit to the Centre for European
Photography just near Sully (may be known as MEP as in Maison
Europeanne Photographie - my French is rubbish!)

Gerry

2008/9/20 Alastair Firkin <afirkin@afirkin.com>:
> Thanks Philippe, I'm sure that what I'm seeing is more of the exception, 
> but its less packaged here than in Australia. I just groan every time I 
> think of slices of cheese in individual plastic wrap!! I'm hoping to go to 
> the HCB foundation today, but I must check it is open on a Saturday
>
> Cheers and more chocolat to all
>
> --- philippe.amard@tele2.fr wrote:
>
> From: Philippe AMARD <philippe.amard@tele2.fr>
> Alastair: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Chocolat
> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:05:22 +0200
>
> Hi Alsatair
> I'm happy you like the sights and share them with us.
> I enjoy each of them a lot.
>
> FYI , selling butter, chocolate or foie gras by the pound is not the
> most common practice over here, as unfortunate as you may find it.
> For instance, French retailer Carrefour is currently Europe's n?1, and
> the world's 2nd largest
> <http://www.boursorama.com/profil/resume_societe.phtml?symbole=1rPCA>
>
> I don't know if the trend towards standardized, untasty, pre-packaged
> foods will ever be reversed.
> I also sometimes miss going to the farm with a tin can to get my milk.
> My grand children will never have this opportunity I'm afraid.
> Ah! Leica ? la carte, straight from the Photokina, sigh
>  ;-)
>
> Keep them coming
> Bien amicalement
> Philippe, Chevalier du B?r?t de la Baguette au levain.
>
>
> Alastair Firkin wrote:
>
>>Again this is something we really don't see in Australia: slabs of 
>>chocolate, broken to required size/weight. Butter is found in huge vat 
>>moulds and sold by the slice, rather than always being pre-packaged. One 
>>day I hope we get back to taking our jam jar and having it re-filled -- 
>>the waste in packaging is one of my big "beefs":
>>
>>So Breaking the Chocolat:
>>
>>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alastair/album184/PARIS+08/L5900007.jpg.html
>>
>><http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alastair/album184/PARIS+08/L5900007.jpg.html>
>>
>>http://tinyurl.com/4qrklf
>>
>>Cheers
>>
>>Alastair
>>
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