This is not a new fashion restaurant where you eat paper. Neither is it a comment on a cooking book… Delicious paper is a new monthly journal and it is free!

The first issue was distributed around Paris yesterday and I was given one while going out to eat.

At the first look it’s like other free daily journals: same paper, same format. BUT when you open it, everything is different : no colorful pictures, long text and modern design. And what I really value : only few ads. I guess they will increase the ads in the next issues since that’s the only way to have money to publish that sort of journal. But I hope they will not fill all the journal with it has it happens with daily journals.

I didn’t had enough time to read all the journal, but I liked the way the articles are written. Having long article to read makes your trip from home to work shorter. And article are some kind of essay, so after reading it you feel a little smarter.

If you want to discover it by yourself, explore the website, you can download the 1st journal and find where it is distributed.

If Metblogs is a city, hub.metblogs is the playground. We kept hearing from people that one of their favorite parts of Metblogs was meeting and interacting with readers and writers from other parts of the world, as well as getting requests for more ways that readers could be involved besides just posting comments. We thought about this for a while and decided that with a network like this, a giant community area where folks from all over the world could hang out, post photos and videos, talk with each other, form groups, play games, send messages, and do about a million other things was probably a pretty fun idea. The Hub is that.

If you have any tech ideas or suggestions join this group and speak up. See you on hub.metblogs!

I was quite amused by this article in the New York Times about the invasion of burgers in Paris. The raves, however, are not for the variation that you find in McD nor Quick (of course not, the blasphemy!) but rather some “Frenchified” burgers. Yup, even burgers are not exactly burgers in this city of gourmet food lovers. Got to be Paris chic, baby. ;-)

(Image by Ed Alcook for the NYT)

How? By doing what the French do best - redefining burgers with new taste (using herbs, fleur de sel etc), new texture (why not use T-bone steak?), or new ingredients altogether (foie gras burger anyone?).

As a good measure, the NYT also throws in a few recipes to try:

• Cocotte Burger
• Café Salle Pleyel Burger
• T-bone Steak Burger

So will you be ordering a burger the next time you eat out at a restaurant? Or will you be cooking some at home this evening?

On a side note, I am not sure if I care for remarks such as “expatriate French chefs reinventing American classics in the United States made it safe for their countrymen to try it back home”. Now, come on!

Le mercredi 1er juillet !!!!

Ce soir (2 juillet), un “rassemblement de bonheur” devant l’hotel de ville. Les détails.

Oui, je me rends compte que ce n’est pas vraiment Parisien mais cela me semble néanmoins intéressant, donc voici juste un petit lien rapide vers un article en ligne du journal Le Monde intitulé : Le CNRS adopte une réforme qui évite son démembrement daté du 2 juillet. A vous de voir si vous trouvez le titre adéquat ou non…

For my first post here (I hope the first of many), I had two major problems: which language to use and what topic to pick. But current events brought something forward that I believe to be adequate for this.

This week in Paris (and other major French cities) was the first “Academic Pride” (I keep hoping “first” means there will be another one next year). As this is a topic close to my heart (what with me being a grad student and all), I thought I’d give you some more info on this event.

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Bonne nouvelle des états unis. Les démocrates américains prennent la Chambre.

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Hé! Guess what?!! (Devinez-quoi)…

Nos frères et soeurs outre-mer en Sacramento viennent d’ouvrir leur propre Metblog… pourquoi pas aller jetter un coup d’oeil… et même dire ‘bonjour’!

Il s’agit de la 49ème ville dans la famille Metblogs… qui va être la cinquième..?!!

http://sacramento.metblogs.com/

Very very sorry, for yet another atrocity to hit yet another city. There are no words to express the sadness.