Why are ordinary lunches and randomly-visited eateries more memorable than the epicurean extravaganzas? Perhaps it's not just the simplicity and lack of pretense, but the great pleasure of surprise. Four of us found a simple place in Blois at random and I had a Lyonnais lentil-and-potato salad which was offered "with or without herring filets." (With, bien sur) That was ten years ago, and I would rather return there than to the frigid silence and starched formality of some of the three-star palaces.
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- bruno 6-14-2003 7:41 pm