Running Late

We'll be at the café soon to begin our day. While we're sure to be running late, you can check in at the Itty Bitty Kitty Committee, meet Charlene Butterbean & learn how you can help little kitties & big ones, too. While you're at it, be sure to add Charlene as a Facebook friend. Giulia urges, neigh demands that you check the committee out. We always listen to Giulia (you should, too). *whisper...she made us type that & she's not even here!

ciao-rush-meow/GG Central

PS: It's Saturday morning & we're still running late. This coffee shop blogging is for the birds.

(photograph by Stefany Alves)

Scarf Chic, la huitième partie, Mont Blanc

Though you can barely make out the off-center, rakishly tied scarf-bow, believe us when we say that then-7 year-old Anne-Sophie was already adding a personal twist to her daily ensemble. Oui. Would we lie? GG's editor was so impressed with A-S's insouciant, charming manner (& her excellent manners, too). Click here to go to Garance Doré's Les jolies choses...this is where scarves go to grow up. The hike was in the Alps, on the Mont Blanc side. We don't want to slight the Italians, so here is a recipe for the gorgeous Monte Bianco. (Nigella Lawson's lazy woman's MBianco, here. Marcella Hazan's still-very-easy-classic, here.)

For good measure, here is a New York Times interview with Marcella & Victor Hazan in September. We look forward to her soon-to-be-published memoir. Finally, here are some cute kid photos by The Sartorialist.

baci, bisou...