I always wonder if kids in Paris know how lucky they are to grow up here. Walking home from school with a flaky croissant in one hand and a suave Parisian papa's reassuring hand in the other, do they know that their never-ending afternoons of goûters and Guignol in the park aren't the stuff that other childhoods are made of? Not that I'm knocking celery sticks and peanut butter with 30 minutes of Mary Tyler Moore. But the average American after-school program today seems to be filled with a lot less fiber and a lot more TV.With cookies, doughnuts, and cupcakes slowly gaining space on French pastry shop shelves, though, Parisian palates may soon get sweet on gourmandise à l'américaine. Luckily French TV is nowhere near as entertaining as a puppet holding a stick.
Kirsten Dunst as Marie Antoinette. [Online image] 1996.
