Butter me up: Paris gets its first boutique devoted to France’s favorite fat

Butter me up: Paris gets its first boutique devoted to France’s favorite fat 1 of 4 | Owner of Butter-shop" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="193671" data-entity-type="organization">Le Butter Shop, Erwan Leo, poses in his first shop devoted entirely to Butter in Paris, France, Tuesday Aug. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) 2 of 4 | Packs of Butter with different flavors are displayed in a refrigerator at Butter-shop" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="193671" data-entity-type="organization">Le Butter Shop, the first shop devoted entirely to Butter in Paris, France, Tuesday Aug. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) 3 of 4 | An employee gives information to a customer at Butter-shop" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="193671" data-entity-type="organization">Le Butter Shop, the first shop devoted entirely to Butter in Paris, France, Tuesday Aug. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) 4 of 4 | Packs of Butter with different flavors are displayed in a refrigerator at Butter-shop" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="193671" data-entity-type="organization">Le Butter Shop, the first shop devoted entirely to Butter in Paris, France, Tuesday Aug. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) 1 of 4 | Owner of Butter-shop" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="193671" data-entity-type="organization">Le Butter Shop, Erwan Leo, poses in his first shop devoted entirely to Butter in Paris, France, Tuesday Aug. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) 1 of 4 Owner of Butter-shop" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="193671" data-entity-type="organization">Le Butter Shop, Erwan Leo, poses in his first shop devoted entirely to Butter in Paris, France, Tuesday Aug. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share 2 of 4 | Packs of Butter with different flavors are displayed in a refrigerator at Butter-shop" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="193671" data-entity-type="organization">Le Butter Shop, the first shop devoted entirely to Butter in Paris, France, Tuesday Aug. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) 2 of 4 Packs of Butter with different flavors are displayed in a refrigerator at Butter-shop" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="193671" data-entity-type="organization">Le Butter Shop, the first shop devoted entirely to Butter in Paris, France, Tuesday Aug. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share 3 of 4 | An employee gives information to a customer at Butter-shop" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="193671" data-entity-type="organization">Le Butter Shop, the first shop devoted entirely to Butter in Paris, France, Tuesday Aug. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) 3 of 4 An employee gives information to a customer at Butter-shop" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="193671" data-entity-type="organization">Le Butter Shop, the first shop devoted entirely to Butter in Paris, France, Tuesday Aug. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share 4 of 4 | Packs of Butter with different flavors are displayed in a refrigerator at Butter-shop" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="193671" data-entity-type="organization">Le Butter Shop, the first shop devoted entirely to Butter in Paris, France, Tuesday Aug. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) 4 of 4 Packs of Butter with different flavors are displayed in a refrigerator at Butter-shop" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="193671" data-entity-type="organization">Le Butter Shop, the first shop devoted entirely to Butter in Paris, France, Tuesday Aug. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] Paris (AP) — The contradiction of the trim Parisian and the Butter croissant now has a storefront.Butter-shop" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="193671" data-entity-type="organization">Le Butter Shop, billed as Paris’ first boutique devoted entirely to Butter, opened last month a short walk from the Eiffel Tower — with 30 varieties from small family producers in Brittany, the Loire Valley and northern France.France eats around 8 kilograms (18 pounds) of Butter per person a year, so says the agriculture ministry. It’s among the most in the world. Yet the home of Chanel and Dior keeps an obesity rate well below the average for wealthy nations — 14%, compared to an average of 19% for the developed countries that make up the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. At the new boutique, customers taste by the spoonful before buying anything from a 10-gram pat to a kilogram (2.2-pound) block: the classics, then shallot, pepper, seaweed, wild garlic, fine herbs and lemon with green pepper. At the sweet end: vanilla, raspberry, strawberry and chocolate.“Most people don’t expect to like a raspberry Butter or to like chocolate Butter,” said owner Erwan Leo, 34. “And when they try it, this is where they’re just like, ‘Oh wow, OK.’”Leo, who also runs a wine-tasting business, said Butter should be used like wine, to make a meal better — “the goal isn’t to get drunk.”