Juste Tutu

23/04/2025

👋 Bye Boston, Hello Jax! ☀️
If you're reading this post, it's because you’ve been part of Juste Tutu’s story — from Paris to pop-ups, from MassArt to mom-life, from Banh Mi to granola.

After over a decade in Boston, I’m sharing some bittersweet news:
Juste Tutu is relocating to Jacksonville, Florida this June.

Before we go, I’d love to offer you one last taste of Juste Tutu in the Boston area:
🛒 Final orders for pickup & delivery accepted through May 15
👉 Order now at www.justetutu.com
💛 Use code BOSTON for free delivery until the end of May!

📓 A Quick Rewind:
🎓 2014–2017: MFA at MassArt’s Dynamic Media Institute — where creativity, tech & community sparked Juste Tutu.

🍰 From global events/marketing in Paris to hospitality in Boston:
🥐 Praliné (Best of Boston macarons!)
🐶 Helped open Pagu (Spanish-Japanese tapas, James Beard–nominated)

🥖 Earned ServSafe in 2018, launched first Banh Mi pop-ups at:
🍻 Lamplighter Brewing Co.
🍦 Colleen’s Medford

👩‍🏫 Started teaching Graphic Design at UMass Lowell, Lesley, and even Drawing at MassArt. Courses included: Color, Sketching, Interactivity, Sneaker Design 👟

🤰 Secretly pregnant, I spoke on a Women in Food panel at MassArt—first time sharing Juste Tutu granola publicly (just before Covid hit).

🇫🇷 Taught French at École Française de Greater Boston & Bentley University
✍️ Certified DELF & TCF examiner
🛒 Granola stocked at: Praliné, Colleen’s, Dado Tea, Momma’s, Nouvelle Maison

🧺 Farmers’ Markets, Grand Prix de la Baguette, Banh Mi workshops, DELF jury duty…

✨ Found community in:

FB Groups like Boston French Connexion, Arlington Cooks, Asians in Arlington

🌞 🚨 Exciting News 🚨🌴
Accepted a job at the University of North Florida as Instructor of Graphic Design – Visual Media 🎉
Dreaming up cross-disciplinary programs blending food, design, storytelling & tech—yes, Juste Tutu keeps growing 🌱

✨ Where do you see Juste Tutu going next?
I have sooo many ideas—and I’d love to hear yours!
💌 Drop a comment ⬇️

09/09/2024

Granola Back in Stock!
Come and get your granola fix! It goes well with their cremee aka soft serve!

Beckett’s first day of school was rewarded with delish Vanilla cremeee 😋 🍦

09/06/2024

Happy Sunday!

Celebrating 10 years in the 🇺🇸!
Some of you knew me as a Communication and Marketing professional when based in Paris, and today I’m also known as a French educator, Design Educator and even podcast host but only a few know that I’m also an Entrepreneur!

Today Sunday, June 9 from 12-4pm I ll be vending at Grand Prix de la Baguette in East Cambridge, MA among my local baker friends! By the way, the French Consul will also be part of the jury and promised me he’ll stop my Juste Tutu booth after the tasting the competing baguettes 🥖 Let’s hope it’s more than a diplomatic answer 😜

If you are in the Boston region, come and say hi! I ll have freshly homemade granola! Bonus point if you can ask for it « en francais » 🇫🇷

More info www.justetutu.com/events

Here are some pic of my first local farmers market yesterday!

Be there or be square!??
Tutu

—

10 ans aux states et certains me connaissent comme prof de français ou prof de design, parfois même podcasteuse, mais peu savent que je suis aussi Entrepreneur!

Dimanche 9 juin de 12-4pm, je serai sur mon petit stand Juste Tutu au Grand Prix de la Baguette Elmendorf à East Cambridge parmi les copains boulangers, d’ailleurs notre consul général fera encore parti des jurés.
Venez j’aurai du granola fait maison! Et si vous me faites une phrase avec le mot « turlututu » je vous offre un petit truc 😜

Plus d’info www.justetutu.com/events
Merci à l’Ecole Française Greater Boston pour le soutien et les sucettes 🍭

Quelques photos de mon premier farmers market à Wi******er ce matin! Merci aux frenchies qui sont venus me dire bonjour!

On se voit là bas?
A+ dans le bus
Tutu de Juste Tutu

28/05/2024

It’s time to sign up for the 👟 summer class!
New edition! New promo poster!

Yes that’s the class initiated by conversations with .meg.56

This year’s poster created by LA+D’27 Eaton Veiga aka was inspired by the Y2K vibes! And yes Design faculty@justetutu was in her 20s in the 2000’s
🥵😵‍💫 🫣🤫

Any rising HS junior, senior or gap year students in your entourage? 

Sign them up for this cool workshop! Meet cool artists + designers, people in the industry, with a little field trip and fun activities hosted by 🥹 and a little « je -ne-sais-quoi» 🇫🇷 🇻🇳  !

Graphic Design Techniques 
for sneaker innovation 
July 15-19
Summer 2024
Lesley.edu/pre-college
Limited Spots!

13/05/2024

🌱Hello les amis! Exciting news! 🌞 This summer, catch at not just ONE, but TWO amazing farmers markets!

Oui, pas UN mais DEUX marchés cet été! 🪴 👩🏻‍🌾

🎉 Get your Granola Fix and much more 🙋🏻‍♀️ 🇫🇷🇻🇳

******erfmkt  9:30am-1:30pm starting *** Saturday, June 8***
June 22
July 13-27
Sept, 7-21
Oct 5-19

11am-2pm in Boston starting  *** Sunday, June 23 ***
July 28 - Sept 8, 22 - Oct 13

More dates will be added soon ;-)
🌱 Merci les amis! Hâte de vous retrouver cet été!

more info www.justetutu.com



🎨 by Tutu

19/07/2023

For French speakers! We are back!!!

On est de retour avec une nouvelle saison et un premier épisode … qui parle de langue, d’expressions idiomatiques et de la pression societale de ne pas parler comme Jean-Claude Van Damme (sorry JC).

Un épisode dans lequel on parle de trucs sérieux, mais dans lequel on rigole comme toujours tout en mettant en lumière les richesses de l’interculturalité !

Et pour l’occasion nous a revamp nos vignettes d’épisodes. Elles sont pas CANONS ? 😍

On compte sur vous pour mettre cet épisode dans vos oreilles et on a hâte de vous lire !

04/07/2023

«  🇫🇷 people don’t eat granola, it’s 🐴 food »
Someone gave that response when my husband asked to a local store if they were carrying granola! 😅

A friend whose parents are farmers in the south west region of France 🇫🇷(close to where I was born) told me that their parents give their animals eg. rabbits, cows, some cereal mix close to granola ingredients but they don’t call it granola for sure. Well…in 🇫🇷 there are actually some horse treats, called « granola », like candy made of glucose syrup, wheat, oats, and sugar cane.

The Granola as we know it today originated in the 🇺🇸

Granola as a breakfast cereal can be traced back to gruel-eating ancient Greeks, but it wasn’t until the 19th century that the idea of eating cold cereal was embraced. In 1863, Dr. James Caleb Jackson, a health reformer who believed illness was rooted in the stomach, began experimenting with cold cereal to augment the mineral-spring treatments at his sanitarium in upstate New York.

He baked graham flour into brittle cakes, which he then crumbled and baked again. It was not an immediate success; in fact, it was edible only when soaked in milk overnight. Even so, Jackson’s granula, as he called it, would soon have competition. It was not long before Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, a Michigan man with a sanitarium of his own, was also promoting a healthful cold cereal.

Kellogg ran the Battle Creek Sanitarium, popular with luminaries like Amelia Earhart. He, too, was a digestive evangelist, and in the late 1870s or early ’80s, Kellogg combined wheat flour, oatmeal and cornmeal into a mixture that he also called granula. Jackson sued. Kellogg duly switched the “u” to an “o,” and by 1889, he was selling two tons of granola a week.

Kellogg went on to invent the cereal flake, which led to the Kellogg’s cereal empire, which led to Froot Loops and Cocoa Krispies.

The Granola name is revived by the modern health food movement, it becomes a "hippie" health food in the 1960's and finally, today granola has gone mainstream.

CQFD.
Voilà! happy rainy July 4th ☔️
❤️

04/07/2023

«  🇫🇷 people don’t eat granola, it’s horse 🐴 food »
Someone gave that response when my husband asked to a local store if they were carrying granola! 😅

A friend whose parents are farmers in the south west region of France 🇫🇷(close to where I was born) told me that their parents give their animals eg. rabbits, cows, some cereal mix close to granola ingredients but they don’t call it granola for sure. Well…in 🇫🇷 there are actually some horse treats, called « granola », like candy made of glucose syrup, wheat, oats, and sugar cane.

The Granola as we know it today originated in the 🇺🇸

Granola as a breakfast cereal can be traced back to gruel-eating ancient Greeks, but it wasn’t until the 19th century that the idea of eating cold cereal was embraced. In 1863, Dr. James Caleb Jackson, a health reformer who believed illness was rooted in the stomach, began experimenting with cold cereal to augment the mineral-spring treatments at his sanitarium in upstate New York.

He baked graham flour into brittle cakes, which he then crumbled and baked again. It was not an immediate success; in fact, it was edible only when soaked in milk overnight. Even so, Jackson’s granula, as he called it, would soon have competition. It was not long before Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, a Michigan man with a sanitarium of his own, was also promoting a healthful cold cereal.

Kellogg ran the Battle Creek Sanitarium, popular with luminaries like Amelia Earhart. He, too, was a digestive evangelist, and in the late 1870s or early ’80s, Kellogg combined wheat flour, oatmeal and cornmeal into a mixture that he also called granula. Jackson sued. Kellogg duly switched the “u” to an “o,” and by 1889, he was selling two tons of granola a week.

Kellogg went on to invent the cereal flake, which led to the Kellogg’s cereal empire, which led to Froot Loops and Cocoa Krispies.

The Granola name is revived by the modern health food movement, it becomes a "hippie" health food in the 1960's and finally, today granola has gone mainstream.

CQFD.
Voilà! happy rainy July 4th ☔️

04/07/2023

«  French people don’t eat granola, it’s horse food »

Someone gave that response when my husband asked to a local store if they were carrying granola! 😅

A friend whose parents are farmers in the south west region of France 🇫🇷(close to where I was born) told me that their parents give their animals eg. rabbits, cows, some cereal mix close to granola ingredients but they don’t call it granola for sure. Well…in 🇫🇷 there are actually some horse treats, called « granola », like candy made of glucose syrup, wheat, oats, and sugar cane.

The Granola as we know it today originated in the 🇺🇸

Granola as a breakfast cereal can be traced back to gruel-eating ancient Greeks, but it wasn’t until the 19th century that the idea of eating cold cereal was embraced. In 1863, Dr. James Caleb Jackson, a health reformer who believed illness was rooted in the stomach, began experimenting with cold cereal to augment the mineral-spring treatments at his sanitarium in upstate New York.

He baked graham flour into brittle cakes, which he then crumbled and baked again. It was not an immediate success; in fact, it was edible only when soaked in milk overnight. Even so, Jackson’s granula, as he called it, would soon have competition. It was not long before Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, a Michigan man with a sanitarium of his own, was also promoting a healthful cold cereal.

Kellogg ran the Battle Creek Sanitarium, popular with luminaries like Amelia Earhart. He, too, was a digestive evangelist, and in the late 1870s or early ’80s, Kellogg combined wheat flour, oatmeal and cornmeal into a mixture that he also called granula. Jackson sued. Kellogg duly switched the “u” to an “o,” and by 1889, he was selling two tons of granola a week.

Kellogg went on to invent the cereal flake, which led to the Kellogg’s cereal empire, which led to Froot Loops and Cocoa Krispies.

The Granola name is revived by the modern health food movement, it becomes a "hippie" health food in the 1960's and finally, today granola has gone mainstream.

CQFD.
Voilà! happy rainy July 4th ☔️

11/06/2023

A lifetime ago when I moved to the 🇺🇸, I was obsessed with bread  🥖.

Couldn’t find a decent baguette 🥖 in the Boston region apart from the imported industrial French frozen ones. 

So I started to make my own 🍞
Family and Friends can testify sadly 🫣😳

Le pain  🍞 is very important to a lot of us French 🇫🇷 , but also Vietnamese 🇻🇳 people like me. 

The English “companion”, the Spanish “companero”, the Italian “compagno”, and the French “copain” all come from the Latin meaning

 “with whom one eats bread.”

Sharing and Breaking Bread! Let’s be copain then! 

I am so excited to be standing next to the first “Parisian Street Fair” by  

I will hopefully get a chance to taste some and if I can bring some ham, butter 🧈 and cornichons I’ll make my own “Jambon Beurre” or even a messy “Banh Mì” if I’m well organized. 

In the meantime come and say hi! is popping up at Collabs Market I’ll have granola and some swag! 

Today only 12-4pm
❤️,
Tutu

Ps: so this is picture of sharing Banh Mì with 🇺🇸 friends & family in 2017? Testing different 🥖 we went for and been friends & neighbors since. 💕

11/06/2023

Demain!
Tomorrow!

12-4pm
Juste Tutu Parisian Street Fair
With

Avec son 🇫🇷 🇻🇳 Flair,
See you there or be 🟪

08/06/2023

And we’re back!!!
is hosting this cool workshop for the 2nd year!

Extended to 2 WEEKS to explore 🧭and have fun 🎉

Summer 2023 Pre-College
Design Techniques for Sneaker 👟 Innovation
July 10-14
July 17-21

More of everything!
Collaborators & Guests 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻🙋🏿‍♂️
.zer

field trip 🚊 .aigo

Led by the one and only👩🏻‍🔧 🛵

👩🏻‍💻Lesley.edu/pre-college

A bientôt! 😘🫣

30/05/2023

Last week, coming back from our pop up I got hit on my brand new electric blue 🛵 by a Black ‘93 Mercedes .
Driver : 80yo 👵🏻.

I remember the year of birth because both my father and father-in-law are born that year. Different lives indeed. You are allowed to drive as long as you can review your driving licence here (every 5 years?)

Lady said sorry didn’t see you. Strange light.
bu I was going West so light was coming at me. 😅

Lovely Medford police came to the rescue thanks for witness. Apparently she hit me on the right side because the scooter is also damaged on that side. I fell on the left side. Bruises and Scratches at first. Then new sores came along this first week.

I’ve been driving scooters in the 🇺🇸 since 2017 since I graduated from . I have a Honda also in 🇻🇳 to navigate crazy busy streets of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). Never rode in Paris 🇫🇷 because good friends have them and i walk and metro a lot, even with stroller now.

This is my summer ride. I deliver granola with this bike and I will hopefully ride to school to teach 2 classes this summer with the scooter. Oh well.

The sneaker 👟 class and Drawing ✍️ Fundamentals

Carpe Diem friends!

❤️,
tutu

19/05/2023

👏

Atlantic Records will also be recognized during the Celebration of Legends event.

19/05/2023

Dimanche! Sunday! Chủ nhat!

02/05/2023

🚨 Mayday May Day!

01/05/2023

Le “mini” or for those who are always late or on-the-go

Just a little over 1oz (28g) or a little more, because whatever fits in this treat bag size .

Available starting this week…but not today because…

Fête du travail! Ou la fête des travailleurs as we say in 🇫🇷
Happy May Day!

Sending Muguet (Lily of the Valley) to everyone 😘

in Boston region, Lily of the Valley usually show up later in May/June

30/04/2023

How are we connected?
Comment sommes-nous connectés?

That’s the question I asked myself back in 2018 when we first did the Banh mi pop up , and later on .

This board was timidly set up for people to add their connection to , but I’m hoping for the upcoming ones you ll not be shy and tell us how we are connected!

In five years, I’ve made so many encounters some are still around, some are gone, some rip, some are busy, some are sick, some are lost…

However I would love to revive and continue this board in a physical way but also find a way to connect with those who aren’t physically but with us “par la pensée” 🇫🇷 sending good vibes from oceans away or multi-meta verses away.

Will you say how we are connected?

Inspired by my grad school project called YOU ARE HERE led by the maestro Jan Kubasiewicz.