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Good service last night, 34 covers with the last pudding out the door by 2215. And then four more puddings because the Spaniards wanted chocolate and cheese after all. Spaniards are the bane of our lives, they want to eat as late as possible – preferably 2 am – and for as long as possible…
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Pancakes up first today. Well, crèpes really; French people generally disdain ‘pancakes’ as overly-thick English creations suitable only for use as fireblankets and airplane wheel chocks. For my response to this, see last week’s mention of pudding.‘Nuff said.So, crèpes are lace-thin pancakes, as you probably alread know. And, as most of us in class are…
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…pimp your snack. http://www.pimpmysnack.com/ Good grief.
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There are, it turns out, rather a lot of soups. Going back to the days of Escoffier and earlier, rather than calling soup with carrots in it, ‘Carrot Soup’, the French call it ‘Potage Crécy’, named after either Crécy-la-Chapelle in Seine-et-Marne, or after Crécy-en-Ponthieu in Somme. Both claim they grow the best carrots and the…
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Frodd as in Fraud. We had the Frodd Squodd (Frodd is how the French mis-pronounce Fraud) from the Service Veterinaire (which is what the French call the Health Insepctors – no, I don’t know why) the other day. They were checking that our Poulets de Bresse really are from Bresse and not some hut up…
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A side of English The French people with whom I work are always smugly pleased when one of the two English dessert dishes they know of comes up. The first is Crème Anglaise which they translate as English Cream and English people translate as Custard. The French make this by beating together 8 – 10…
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I know, we’ll run big lorries up and down a great London street until it’s buggered. http://www.littlegreenstreet.com/ I know Little Green Street well, I’ve been welcomed there a lot by some of my very best friends in the world. Please sign the petition and don’t let the council mess it up. Thankyou.
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This site gives the results for the Certificat d’Aptitude Professionel 2006, the CAP exam I took last month. Search for Ward, Chris. ‘Admis’ means ‘Passed’. Cool! Those results in detail: WARD Chris né(e) le 23/10/1960 Epreuves Coef. Notes TOTAL de points APPROVISIONNEMENT ET ORGANISAT 15.00 /20 PRODUCTIONS CULINAIRES 175.0 /200 VIE SOCIALE ET PROFESSIONNELLE 16.00…
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