“What’s wrong with just being kind and hospitable and generous…”?
Archive for November, 2008
rata-tata-touïlle retro
Posted in Autumn/Fall, Summer, ingredients, recipes, tagged ratatouille, recipe, vegetables on November 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Well hey, I’m not going to pay a visit to our place in Nice and swan about its perfect little kitchen, brave the snooty sales ladies at Alziari for a tin of their unctuous olive oil, fossick about the farmers’ stalls for vegetables and forage for fresh herbs on the Cours Saleya and NOT idle away an [...]
an afternoon at the butchers, a night at the Opera
Posted in shopping, tagged butchers, Vieux Nice on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Talk about a view – this was mine for a full 50 minutes last Saturday. We waited and we waited and we waited: and then we waited some more. All I wanted was to pick up a couple of grillades de boeuf at a great price, but the entire population of Vieux Nice descended simultaneously [...]
I ate dog shit…
Posted in Autumn/Fall, overseas, restaurants, tagged Vieux Nice on November 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
…and I loved it. No, I wasn’t auditioning for a remake of Pink Flamingos, but as in the direct translation of the Nissard dialect’s Merda de Can and no, it’s not actually what it says on the tin, rather a gnocchi Nissarde made with swiss chard (blettes) and/or spinach, shaped to resemble its namesake; I doubt if the [...]
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