The Story of The Café

For as long as I can remember, I've had a cake plate with a glass dome sitting on my kitchen counter. As our children were growing up, we often entertained their friends in our home. I tried to always have something delicious for them under "the dome". Their friends quickly learned to check out this stash the minute they walked in the door.

In those days, I also had some pretty blue and white canisters on my counter that had the French words for tea, coffee, sugar and flour (the, café, sucre and farine) written on them.

My son Nick, had a friend named Jon, who spent quite a bit of time at our house. Jon loved to eat my treats and was forever imploring me to open a restaurant. One day, while enjoying a piece of chocolate cake, he glanced at the canisters and blurted out, "That's it, Mrs. Scheuer! The name of your restaurant should be The Café Sucre Farine!"

I thought it was a delightful name. While I've never had aspirations to start a restaurant, I knew when I began thinking about doing a food blog this HAD to be the name!

Thanks Jon!

The rest of the story...

We sold those canisters many years ago at a yard sale. We were moving to a new home and the color scheme was changing. After I started the blog, I was sad that I had gotten rid of those fun canisters.

Thankfully, that's not the end of the story. Recently, Scott and I stopped at a restaurant for dinner. He got out of the car before I did and peeked into the window of a small gift/antique shop next door to the restaurant.

All of a sudden, I heard him yell, "You won't believe this!" I rushed to see what he was so excited about.

There in front of us, was a perfect set of my long lost, blue and white The Café Sucre Farine canisters. Once again, they sit proudly on my kitchen counter!