our new french recipe book

We've just had our recipe book translated into French.

We thought it might be a straightforward translation job, but no. Lots of our questionable 'jokes' and cultural references needed to be rewritten (thanks Matt) and we came up with some new recipes too, especially for the cultured French palate.

We kept the wee-o-meter in though. Everyone needs to wee, even the French. It's now known as the pipi-o-metre.

our new paris office

Our new Paris office was officially opened this week. Philippe (the boss) wore a silly hat and cut the ceremonial innocent bunting, which is how things are done in France. The office is in this nice courtyard, where the gnomes roam free:

Our Emilie in Paris says "It is beautiful and high ceilinged, spacious, in a grand Parisian building. We have so many rooms we are getting lost inside and might need to invest in microphones to avoid yelling at each other across the office. We miss our old concierge Maria but apart from that it’s really much better than the old place."

right up our street

Look what Nicholai found in Paris.

Read more on our Danish blog here (it helps if you can speak Danish).

stop trottoir

Here are our first ever 'Stop Trottoirs' - signs that we put on the pavements of Paris, imploring people to come into shops and buy smoothies.

The above 'Stop Trottoir' is outside Fruit Towers Paris, and in the background you can see Maria, caretaker of the buildings in which we are housed. She is tough but fair, and only ever uses the umbrella in self defence.

Below is a 'Stop Trottoir' in its natural habitat - outside a Monoprix store in the suburbs.

en paris

We started selling drinks a while ago in France. There have been a couple of false dawns but this time round everything is going really well. We have an amazing bunch of people running innocent in Paris. They're really busting a gut. The latest example of their fine work is the stuff they've done in Monop', which is your archetypal 21st century metropolitan mini-supermarket, in a very French shade of bright pink. We've kind of taken over, grassing up the whole place and putting up our pictures inside the weird little picnic booths (see below). It looks great.