On 7/14/2017 11:33 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2017-07-14 11:25 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>> Oh dear. When the peasants were uprising and killing the French
>> aristocracy... I got this NY Times menu suggestions via email today.
>> Let 'Em Cake!
>>
>> "Good morning. It is Bastille Day, so we've put together a fine new
>> video recipe for French fries that you could make this evening in a
>> hiss and bubble of oil, then serve with a simple pan-fried steak, some
>> béarnaise sauce and a thatch of watercress, alongside a glass of vin
>> rouge. Steak frites! To the barricades!"
>>
>
> Back in 1993 we arrived in Paris on Bastille Day. We had overlooked that
> when we made out plans. We arrived there in the morning after a red eye
> flight, hopped on the train and went to Strasbourg. It was a day much
> like today was here, cool, hold, raining, cloudy, clear, rain, clear...

Um... I was talking about the food mentioned in the article, not the
weather. I seriously doubt the poor people of France at that time were
eating pan fried steaks with bearnaise sauce with watercress. Or french
fries.

Jill