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So we went to the pictures and ate out last night; Garden State at the Utopia – good flick with one of my favourite actors in it, Zapp Brannigan or whatever that bloke out of Scrubs is called (OK, not so ‘favourite’ that I can remember his name). Then Tapas at TapaLocas much to the…
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Anthony Bourdain on becoming a chef; recommends you work as a washer-upper for six months.
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Diving because plongeur = diver AND washer-up in French. ‘Nuff because it’s an amusing pun, not because I’ve had enough of it. Quite the opposite, in fact. Last night was fun; six tables, about 25 covers and we’re halfway through serving the starters at 2030. I’ve just finished cleaning up the batterie of saucepans and…
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98 covers last night for our ‘Soirée champagne’ – six courses starting with carpaccio de St Jacques and finishing with moelleux de chocolat. We’ve been doing the prep for this for two or three days and it all went well, but I didn’t get out of the joint until gone half-past one this morning; the…
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We’re going to somewhere called Sanary for a bit flower expo today, somewhere the other side of Toulon. Which I remember well as the first place I ever had a fondue bourguignone at the home of the sister of the best friend of my Niçoise penfriend Brigitte, to whom I haven’t spoken in far too…
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Popped out this morning to buy a baguette, a matched pair of pains au chocolat and a boitier, a computer case. Easy when you live in a city, not so easy if you live in, say, this delightful stone-built farmhouse which is still for sale at a very reasonable price.
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Good grief, two days in a row. You can tell I’ve got lots of other really important stuff to do, can’t you? Like, writing something for Wendy. I write a fortnightly column for a website she manages and this time she wants me to work in more fist-fights (over fish) and less recipes. She would…
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Chef re-discovered honey yesterday. Now all the saucepans, ladles, plates, spoons and staff are covered with the bloody stuff, and it’s my job to scrape it off and flush it down the sink. And even I have limits, let me tell you. So yes, you’re right Peter I did make a big song and dance…
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