"Victor Sack" > ha scritto nel messaggio
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> Giusi > wrote:
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>> If Paris is in your plans I have no hesitation in recommending
>> "L'Ambassade
>> de'Auvergne"
>Salade tiède de lentilles vertes du Puy. Yes, it is very good.

How nice to find someone who knows it!
I came home and over time developed the recipe for it, which I have been
serving ever since. Italians usually don't like powerful flavors and most
think mustard is strange, but they all love that salad.
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>> I did not liuke the famous mashed potatoes with cheese,
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> With garlic, too. It is called aligot and I like it.

I disliked the runny texture which reminds me of paste, and the dramatic
sheeting off the beating spoon makes it look even more like paste.
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>> nor the
>> pot au feu,
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> You've been there on a Monday, then. It is when they serve pot-au-feu.

Perhaps. I probably would not like any restaurant pot au feu, because the
many days in a row cooking that I learned as a child is not really practical
in restaurants, and perhaps in some places not ieven legal. I make it once
a year and invite as many diners as I have chairs. Mine is Bretagne style
with the bag of stuffing, and even though some of the parts look seriously
strange to modern diners, even kids end up eating all the parts. I do try
to do cosmetics to certain meats once cooked before reheating. Their pot au
feu was just like a meat stew unthickened or a particularly chunky soup.

> And there are some wines which are hard to find elsewhere, such as the
> white Saint-Pourçain and the red Chanturgue.
>
> Victor

In this case we let the waiter decide but told him our price limit. We ate
at the big communal table at the rear and ended up sharing tastes of
everything with the other diners at that table, who were all French and all
friendly. AAMOF, I have never experienced the snobbishness and rudeness
people complain of, and I cannot figure out where it comes from. Perhaps
when they break one of the unwritten rules of politeness they take the
severe looks too seriously?