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Foodie Swellness: Riviera Petit Pot

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The last time I was in Paris (about three years ago with L’Oreal and Julianne Moore), I fell in love with their yogurts, which come in darling glass jars. I kept one (I store hair ties in it).

Just recently launched in Ontario is Riviera Petit Pot, a line from Quebec of yogurts and dairy products such as sour cream, crème fraiche (which is always hard to find), butter and cheese. And the liquid-y products all come in those cute French-style glass jars. There’s just something pleasing about the experience of eating a yogurt out of the jar, both visually and in a tactile sense.

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What the products taste like is, of course, what matters most and I like the full flavour of the yogurts; they’re not overly decadent tasting (I find some yogurts can seem like dessert and that’s not what I’m looking for at breakfast!) but also aren’t thin or have a tinny taste I find some yogurts have. Plus, Petit Pot has a fig yogurt (which I’ve never seen in the yogurt section) and it’s a nice departure from my usual choices (plain, honey or strawberry, and sometimes peach). The crème fraiche I used in a pasta dish and it turned out great.

I have butters, cheese and sour cream to taste test still but I have a feeling they’ll be as satisfying as the yogurts.

Riviera Petit Pot is available in select retailers across Ontario.

 

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Julianne Moore for L’Oreal Paris

I’m just home from five days in Paris with L’Oreal Paris, and the trip included attending a cocktail party for their official welcome of Julianne Moore as a spokesperson for the brand. Moore, 51, is just as pretty in person as on the big screen — kind of makes you want to hate her, right? She seems gracious and warm, though, and just really real. I didn’t get a chance to interview her (for that, you’ll have to read Carlene Higgins’s article in the March 2013 issue of Flare as she scored one-on-one time with the actress), but I liked Moore’s philosophy of choosing to embrace where you are in life that she shared at the cocktail event:

“Enjoy where you are. By wishing you were younger, you only miss the year in which you’re living, the year in which you’re 45, 50 or 53, so enjoy that year and every year you have as long as you’re able.”

Kinda sounds a lot like including swellness in your life, n’est-ce pas?

You can check out more from the cocktail event in this video here:

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