A large\u00c2\u00a0jar of JIF crunchy peanut butter sits on my kitchen pantry shelf. Could this be the last sighting of my favorite sandwich spread until\u00c2\u00a0I return from Paris? Should I pack it with the\u00c2\u00a0dictionaries, scarves, and\u00c2\u00a0tennis shoes?<\/p>\n
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The French aren’t big peanut butter consumers. They eat Nutella, certainly. Great butter, of course. Jam, mais oui. <\/em>But what about JIF-Skippy-Peter Pan-Laura Scudders? And how much of your own life–how much of America–how much YOU–do you take on a trip?<\/p>\n I plan to pack myself a lunch for\u00c2\u00a0each walking\u00c2\u00a0foray into the City of Lights, a protection against finding myself in a monstrously overpriced restaurant or ravenous as I rattle along on the Metro. I’ll prepare a modest bag of sandwich,\u00c2\u00a0fruit, and\u00c2\u00a0a yogurt\u00c2\u00a0for contemplative consuming in a park. With the US dollar down to 72 cents to the Euro, frugality is on my mind. And what keeps better than a PBJ? Peanut butter and a French raspberry confiture, d’accord?<\/em> No worries about spoiling lunchmeats or sagging egg salad.<\/p>\n If I could find Butterball turkeys, Rice Krispies,\u00c2\u00a0and Kit Kat bars in Dubai two years ago, maybe I should trust that I’ll find everything I need on Parisian grocery shelves. But will Carrefours really\u00c2\u00a0supply all my journey’s fuel? Maybe just throw in an emergency jar of\u00c2\u00a0JIF and not tempt fate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A large\u00c2\u00a0jar of JIF crunchy peanut butter sits on my kitchen pantry shelf. Could this be the last sighting of my favorite sandwich spread until\u00c2\u00a0I return from Paris? Should I pack it with the\u00c2\u00a0dictionaries, scarves, and\u00c2\u00a0tennis shoes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}