jesica's pastry tour is amazing. basically there's three things going on here: - you're eating amazing pastry and chocolate the entire tour, non-stop, with no lag-time or low-spots - jesica is an incredibly friendly and knowledgeable resource, allowing you to feel comfortable with all those inane touristy questions we all have - you end up learning about two thousand years of culinary history without realizing it i think there is just a perfect correspondence between the curated nature of the experience and the hidden nature of paris. there's just _so much_ in paris, and it's easy to get lost. jesica has hand-picked some of the most incredible bakeries in paris through what seems like years of painstaking research! she not only tells you what each place specializes in and how they make everything so good, but how they developed these techniques over the centuries. by the end of the tour, the whole meme of "man, how did the french develop such an amazing culinary culture?!" gets demystified a little bit -- jesica shows you the stages of how (and why) it happened. and, of course, the whole time, you are reaping the sweet rewards of the process. anyhow: highly recommended. insider information i never could have got on my own, and it took my appreciation of intricate pastries and chocolates to unimagined heights. thank you jesica!