« Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you who you are », a French proverb says.
We talked about musical preferences, about perfumes ; now: cuisine and food !! What's your favourite ? What dou you like most ?
...The Italians eat most sensibly. The Spaniards eat most abstemiously. The Scandinavians eat most fastidiously. The Belgians eat most indigestibly. The French eat most pretentiously. The Roumanians eat most garlic-spiced. The Germans eat most...
...My favourite European bar is "Harry's" in Venice, where Italian aristocrats swapping modish gossip confront self-conscious tourists laughing nervously when they see the bill...
... In Cognac, France, I was offered the usual soup, pâté and sausages for breakfast. Belgian specialities include deep-fried sausages stuffed with shrimps and mussels with potato-chips...
... The Heaven of all the cuisine heavens are the French restaurants in Paris - « L'Espadon » in the Ritz, les « Ambassadeurs » in Hotel Crillon, and « Arpège », famous for its carpaccio langoustines with caviar, its lobsters with turnips...
... I spent a week once in Haute-Savoie (High Savoy), in the French Alps, eating gargantuan breakfasts, ample picnic lunches and stout dinners every day. On my way to Geneva (through Férney-Voltaire) I stopped at the Auberge du Père Bise for a lakeside lunch of little fishes with white wines. It was exquisite. The bill came to me more than the bill of all those breakfasts, all those lunches, all those dinners during 7 days and I did not regret a French-Franc of it. They were the "omble chevalier" fish, the rarest in the world (to be found only in Alpine lakes of France)...
...The most puffed-up restaurant in Europe seems to be Wierzynek in Krákow, Poland, which claims to have started its career with a dinner party in 1364 by King Casimir the Great of Poland, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV of Luxembourg, King Lájos of Hungary (Anjou dynasty), King Waldemaar of Denmark, King Pierre de Lusignan of Cyprus, the archdukes of Austria, of Pomerania and the Margrave of Brandenburg. It has been entertaining kings, princes, emperors, shahs, presidents and prime-ministers ever since...
So, dearest LPSG-ers, whaddaya like to eat ??
Raal Lexx (aiming to be the cousin of Lucullus)
We talked about musical preferences, about perfumes ; now: cuisine and food !! What's your favourite ? What dou you like most ?
...The Italians eat most sensibly. The Spaniards eat most abstemiously. The Scandinavians eat most fastidiously. The Belgians eat most indigestibly. The French eat most pretentiously. The Roumanians eat most garlic-spiced. The Germans eat most...
...My favourite European bar is "Harry's" in Venice, where Italian aristocrats swapping modish gossip confront self-conscious tourists laughing nervously when they see the bill...
... In Cognac, France, I was offered the usual soup, pâté and sausages for breakfast. Belgian specialities include deep-fried sausages stuffed with shrimps and mussels with potato-chips...
... The Heaven of all the cuisine heavens are the French restaurants in Paris - « L'Espadon » in the Ritz, les « Ambassadeurs » in Hotel Crillon, and « Arpège », famous for its carpaccio langoustines with caviar, its lobsters with turnips...
... I spent a week once in Haute-Savoie (High Savoy), in the French Alps, eating gargantuan breakfasts, ample picnic lunches and stout dinners every day. On my way to Geneva (through Férney-Voltaire) I stopped at the Auberge du Père Bise for a lakeside lunch of little fishes with white wines. It was exquisite. The bill came to me more than the bill of all those breakfasts, all those lunches, all those dinners during 7 days and I did not regret a French-Franc of it. They were the "omble chevalier" fish, the rarest in the world (to be found only in Alpine lakes of France)...
...The most puffed-up restaurant in Europe seems to be Wierzynek in Krákow, Poland, which claims to have started its career with a dinner party in 1364 by King Casimir the Great of Poland, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV of Luxembourg, King Lájos of Hungary (Anjou dynasty), King Waldemaar of Denmark, King Pierre de Lusignan of Cyprus, the archdukes of Austria, of Pomerania and the Margrave of Brandenburg. It has been entertaining kings, princes, emperors, shahs, presidents and prime-ministers ever since...
So, dearest LPSG-ers, whaddaya like to eat ??
Raal Lexx (aiming to be the cousin of Lucullus)