A friend sent me this photo of a poppyseed slice from the...

A friend sent me this photo of a poppyseed slice from the Florence Kahn Boulangerie in the Marais, in Paris. I love popppyseed cake, poppyseed strudel and most of all poppyseed slices. The cakes and breads in the Florence Kahn Boulangerie all look as though they have come straight from the Jewish centers of pre-war Europe. When I looked at the photo of the poppyseed slice all of my Olympic-standard calorie-calculating ability evaporated and was replaced by a desperate desire to get on the first available flight to Paris.