Giusi > wrote:

> "Victor Sack" > ha scritto
> > Giusi > wrote:
> >
> >> "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.

Care to post your recipe?

> 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.

Why many days? Do you contrive an "eternal kettle", as described by
Dumas in his Dictionary?

> 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?

I have never seen any snobbishness or rudeness, either. The "rude
French waiter" is a myth, too, as far as my experience goes.

Victor