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The White Delight
There’s surely more to the magnificent and, by so many, over-looked vegetable, the cauliflower. ‘Cauliflower Ears’ were a graphic boxing term from thelate 19th and early 20th century refering to those poor off ’seconds’ who took the repeated punches and ended up with permanently … Continue reading
Proust’s Legacy makes us all Beneficiaries
As a serious 19th century writer, Marcel Proust possibly did more for the populace for cake than he did with his books. Those few opening lines about how nibbling at a madeleine transported him almost immediately back to a happy childhood at his grandmother’s house in Cabourg (Normandy) … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Coffee, Food travel, French Markets, French supermarkets, Memories
Tagged Andre Gide, Benedictine, Blue Collar Gastronomy, Cabourg, Cafe au Lait, Calvados, Caramel Beurre Sale, Cidre, Corot, ENO, Etretat, Francis Bacon, Genovese Sponge, Guy de Maupassant, James Joyce, John Minihan, Les Madeleines de Commercy, Louis XV, Madeleines, Marcel Proust, Monet, Offenbach, Oscar Wilde, Pissarro, Samuel Beckett, Tales of Hoffmann, William Burroughs
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