He Could Make The Knuckle Of A Pig Taste Like The
Wing Of An Angel; And What He Could Do With A Skillet, A Pinch Of
Herbs And A Calf's Sweetbread Passed Human Understanding.
Certain animals in Europe do have the most delicious diseases
anyway - notably the calf and the goose, particularly the goose of
Strasburg, where the pate de foie gras comes from.
The engorged
liver of a Strasburg goose must be a source of joy to all - except
its original owner!
Several times we went back to the little restaurant round the
corner from the market, and each time we had something good. The
food we ate there helped to compensate for the terrific disillusionment
awaiting us when we drove out of Paris to a typical roadside inn,
to get some of that wonderful provincial cookery that through all
our reading days we had been hearing about. You will doubtless
recall the description, as so frequently and graphically dished
up by the inspired writers of travelogue stuff - the picturesque,
tumbledown place, where on a cloth of coarse linen - white like
snow - old Marie, her wrinkled face abeam with hospitality and
kindness, places the delicious omelet she has just made, and brings
also the marvelous salad and the perfect fowl, and the steaming
hot coffee fragrant as breezes from Araby the Blest, and the vin
ordinaire that is even as honey and gold to the thirsty throat.
You must know that passage?
We went to see for ourselves. At a distance of half a day's
automobile run from Paris we found an establishment answering to
the plans and specifications.
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