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French Nachos
Posted May 31, 2007 at 05:20 AM by lapetite
From take-out pizza to microwaveable burgers to Flunch, sometimes it seems like the French just don’t understand junk food.There is, however, an exception: potato chips. My Lord, do the French have tasty potato chips. Now, it’s not their essential chippiness which is so superior to American brands — they aren’t [...]
King of Pastrami
Posted May 30, 2007 at 03:28 AM by lapetite
With so much terrific French food all around you in Paris, it's hard to imagine wanting anything else. Still, when the occasional ethnic-food craving hits, it's nice to know that Paris can satisfy these yearnings as well. For me, the yearning takes the form of deli-food -- bagels, challah, pickles, and pastrami. And [...]
Au Crocodile
Posted May 30, 2007 at 03:00 AM by lapetite
While in Strasboug, my group took an afternoon for lunch at the two-star Au Crocodile. And what a lunch it was! This being the low-season for fine restaurants, the Etoiles d’Alsace is running their yearly Formules-Jeunes promotion, which means people under 35 can get a delectable two-star meal (and five courses worth of [...]
Ceci n'est pas une fraise
Posted May 30, 2007 at 02:24 AM by lapetite
There were a lot of strawberries at the market today, and I noticed that they were labeled “3 barquettes/3 Euro”, so I decided to get some for our lunch. Unfortunately, most of the strawberries looked a little dreary — dark and dull red, oversized, a little mushy. But then I spotted a few barquettes sitting apart from the others, [...]
Looks Can Be Deceiving
Posted May 30, 2007 at 02:02 AM by lapetite
France is rightly famous for its sweets and pastries -- there are few more decadent pleasures in life then slicing into a rich, gooey fondant au chocolat or elegant tiramisu. Still, sometimes a girl gets homesick for the treats of her youth... Which is why, when I saw a rack of freshly-baked donuts at my local patisserie, I just had to [...]
