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Sweet indulgence Filled with Valrhona dark chocolate ganache and hand-painted with a colorful, high-gloss sheen, this year's Easter offering from John and Kira Chocolates is a stylish complement to the family Easter basket or dinner table. It's also an elegant holiday hostess gift.
Sweet indulgence
Filled with Valrhona dark chocolate ganache and hand-painted with a colorful, high-gloss sheen, this year's Easter offering from John and Kira Chocolates is a stylish complement to the family Easter basket or dinner table. It's also an elegant holiday hostess gift.
Freshly made, decadently rich, and melt-in-your-mouth creamy, 12 chocolates come in a well-crafted wooden gift box.
- Marilynn Marter
Artisan Easter Eggs (12), $36. From John and Kira's, 800-747-4808 or www.johnandkiras.com.
Order today, delivered tomorrow ($8.50).
Breath of spring
Perk up plain dinnerware with colorfully patterned accent plates from Brazil in six "Graphic Garden" designs: Fern (green), Hydrangea (blue), Flower (yellow/orange), Poppy (red), Versailles (green brocade) and Butterfly (pastels). Microwave and dishwasher safe.
- M.M.
Graphic Garden Salad Plates, 8-inch, set of 6, $30. ($5 each.) Also, matching 15-ounce tumblers, 6 for $36. At Pottery Barn.
Yes, it's no banana
The accent is Korean, but the name is Paris Baguette. And the shelves are stocked indeed with breads and cakes festooned, in the French style, with glazed fruit. There are donuts, too, stuffed with red bean paste, and fried tofu chips, and these playful "banana breads," sponge cakes that seem cut out to play the base in your next riff on strawberry(-banana) shortcake.
- Rick Nichols
Banana Bread cakes, $2 a pair, Paris Baguette, 6773 N. Fifth St., 215-276-2000.