Sweet panna cotta and cheerful correspondence

Flavor, friends and some recommendations in this latest dispatch from BoxLand

Hello! Hello!

I hope you’ve all been chugging along merrily. Chez here, I feel like I’m moving backward and forward — it could be a dance and, if it were, it would be the standstill shuffle. Of course, part of it is the move out of NYC — officially it was yesterday (more when I’m literally not buried by it) — and part of it is that life goes on (thank goodness!) and there’s stuff to plan. Did I mention that it’s almost time for us to fly back to Paris? And that the kids will be there for a week? I’m hoping that we’ll have good weather. Paris melted under a heat dome last month — it sounds sci-fi, but it’s miserable and truly dangerous — at the same time that we had cool weather and wild winds. I had been delighted that my poppy plants flowered this year — flourished, really — and then so worried that they’d be done in by the crazy wind and heavy rain.