November 2-5th – Paris Week 10 flew by, as did my time in Paris this past weekend. To honor my short and sweet speed date with the “city of love,” I’m going to speed date this blog post, too, in the form of 10 short observations.* *You might think this is a clever commentary about fleeting young love or an erudite use of numbers because 10 and 10 match, but I’m really using this format because a) I’m exhausted from traveling; b) I’m tired of writing long blog posts; and 3) yo

I’m sitting across from Ben Hon, better known by his 34.4k followers on Instagram as @stuffbeneats, inside the Vietnamese restaurant Madame Vo, a local East Village hotspot whose menu featuring long-standing family recipes never fails to draw long lines. We’re taking photos of the carefully arranged dishes in front of us, I with my iPhone 6 and he with his large Fujifilm camera complete with a set of three lenses. Next to us, two girls are pointing and whispering, until one o