"Et tu fais quoi dans la vie?"

As Poetic & Chic is such a new place to visit on this vast internet, I have had to learn a great deal from my many predecessors in the world of blogging. Two sites that have given me endless inspiration, guidance, and ideas are of course Michael Brendan Dougherty’s Surfeited with Dainties, as well as Clotilde Dusoulier’s Chocolate & Zucchini. Yesterday, Clotilde’s site turned three years old, and so from one blogger to another, I offer hearty félicitations!

I first discovered C&Z while taking a food writing class this summer through the UC Berkeley Extension – our class read an article on what was happening in the world of food writing, and wouldn’t you know it if the latest chou-chou de Paris of the epicurean variety was none other than the very young, but very worldly Clotilde. A few months later, spurred on by the elegant, tastebud-tingling prose of Ms. Dusoulier, (and possibly more than a little envy at her online success,) I created Poetic & Chic.

Tastebud tingling? One of the first entries I read of Clotilde’s was entitled “When Your Sister Gives You Lemons” wherein she describes the process of making lemon curd from lemons grown just outside of Nice:

“…a bountiful lemon tree, currently overloaded with beautiful, smooth-skinned fruit, pale yellow like the baby clothes you buy when you don’t know if it’s a boy or a girl.”

Honestly, she writes like that – and her photography is utterly stunning too. It’s no wonder she has such a following, with a cookbook deal and everything. Clotilde, your success is well-deserved! Thank you for your creativity and inspiration.

Bisoux!!!

Image of Chocolate Chili Bites - Clotilde Dusoulier