Dogs in Paris already enjoy many luxuries not
afforded to them in many other capital cities - they
are welcome in department stores and are allowed to
dine with their owners in restaurants. Now a US expatriate
has gone one step further and opened a patisserie
devoted to dogs.
Among the delicacies on offer at "Mon Bon
Chien" (My Good Dog) are cat-shaped bacon
biscuits and bone-shaped cookies made of real foie
gras. Proprietor Harriet Sternstein is actually
an award-winning pastry chef, who moved to Paris with her dog Sophie-Marie, a golden labrador
with a customary love of biscuits.
"The biscuits can also be eaten by humans, but I advise using your back teeth to chew them rather than your canines!"
The new bakery came from Harriet's
idea to combine the two main interests in her life -
baking and pets. And now every day between 200 and
300 biscuits are freshly made and sold in the shop,
with word spreading fast among the city's 200,000
dogs.
"It's not so much a matter of the form that they're in, but the taste. We have peanut butter bears, we have vegetable stars, we have foie
gras, which is actual foie gras that you and I would eat,"
Harriet explained.
"The biscuits can also be eaten by humans,
but I advise using your back teeth to chew them rather than your canines!"
she joked.
