[Leica] PAW 50 : Phx - Foie Gras - now, cassoulet

[lug at steveunsworth.co.uk (Steve Unsworth)]

Someone once likened eating cassoulet to walking across a muddy field. You
start off with the best of intentions, but about half way you begin to flag
and wonder how much more there is.

Steve


On 18/12/08 22:07, "Seth Rosner" <sethrosner@nycap.rr.com> wrote:

> Ah memories!
> 
> 30+ years ago my penultimate married relation and I were on our wedding
> trip, returning from Nice to Paris via Carcassonne whose fortifications she
> wished to see. And I wished to enjoy un vrai cassoulet toulousain, thus we
> wended our way to Toulouse and found a lovely small hotel of whose patronne
> I requested the restaurant that prepared the best cassoulet in Toulouse. 
> "Ah
> non, monsieur, vous voulez plutot un bon cassoulet de Castelnaudry". To
> which she directed us. It was sensational gustatorially. It also created 
> the
> most aromatic and ferocious gas attack since La Grande Guerre Mondiale, la
> premiere!