Marché aux Puces St-Ouen de Clignancourt & Saveur Awards

Marché aux Puces St-Ouen de Clignancourt & Saveur Awards

March 09th, 2010  | Category: Travel


Chanel skis with a matching outfit, vintage bird cages, dressers from the Renaissance period or a mint copy of Le Journal de Mickey published in the late 30's... Some of many extraordinary items that can be found at Marché aux Puces St-Ouen de Clignancourt - the world's largest antiques market. We initially planned for a 5-day trip to Paris, but at the end of day two, it was ...

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Cafe Fernando Turns Three

Cafe Fernando Turns Three

March 31st, 2009  | Category: Memoir/Meme/Misc.


Today, Cafe Fernando turns three. The plans I had for this big day... I was actually planning to go through all the recipes and calculate how much butter, chocolate and eggs I consumed throughout these three years... and then maybe prepare a pie chart with this statistical info.. The biggest slice could have been a chocolate cake with bittersweet chocolate ganache... the other one a lemon pound cake ...

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New Member of The Family

New Member of The Family

April 13th, 2008  | Category: Memoir/Meme/Misc.


Please meet the new member of our family: Altın Örümcek (Golden Spider). This may not be major news to readers outside of Turkey, but Cafe Fernando was chosen Turkey's Best Blog and got The Golden Spider Award last week. The Golden Spider Web Awards is an annual competition, where successful websites are honored in 53 different categories. It is sort of like the Web Oscars in Turkey (minus the ...

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Cafe Fernando turns one

Cafe Fernando turns one

March 31st, 2007  | Category: Chocolate, Tarts and Pies


It seems like yesterday... I was reading my friend's blog... I clicked on a link and it brought me to another food blog. What I saw was out of this world. Then I discovered others. Once I started reading through these wonderfully crafted journals of food, there was no turning back. It was a world I never knew existed. I knew nothing about CSS, photography, blogging or anything ...

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