Altered Tastes: Baguettes And Your Grandmother's Corpse
If you are serious about cooking or even if you are like me and failed out of cooking school, France is pretty much the motherland of cuisine. Many of the foundations of professional cooking from sauces to restaurant structure have solid origins in French culture. Try to have a serious conversation about cooking without using a French word. I dare you. View From A Cafe My trip to France was revelatory on many levels. Like a first time acid trip forever destroying your seemingly sufficient world-view, replacing it with a gigantic, important, awe-inspiring, utterly confusion nest of unanswered questions. This amazing experience was broken up into two discrete parts: A week in Paris that culminated at a wedding, followed by a week of driving around and exploring the French countryside. Paris smelled of piss and baguettes. Architecturally beautiful, with parks and fountains. The people were cosmopolitan cold... bordering on rude. ...