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Olivers wrote: Of course, there are those who claim that the quality of French cooking was rarely higher than one could find in Saigon in the early 60s (and a number of popular Vietnamese dishes are clearly drawn from the French including a generic beef and fried potato dish that's pretty scary. Nuoc mam on powdered eggs? No..... Just about the best French bakery (Ba Le) in Chicago is owned by Vietnamese.... -- Best Greg |
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Olivers wrote: Of course, there are those who claim that the quality of French cooking was rarely higher than one could find in Saigon in the early 60s (and a number of popular Vietnamese dishes are clearly drawn from the French including a generic beef and fried potato dish that's pretty scary. Nuoc mam on powdered eggs? No..... Just about the best French bakery (Ba Le) in Chicago is owned by Vietnamese.... -- Best Greg |
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Olivers wrote: Of course, there are those who claim that the quality of French cooking was rarely higher than one could find in Saigon in the early 60s (and a number of popular Vietnamese dishes are clearly drawn from the French including a generic beef and fried potato dish that's pretty scary. Nuoc mam on powdered eggs? No..... Just about the best French bakery (Ba Le) in Chicago is owned by Vietnamese.... -- Best Greg |
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Mxsmanic wrote: So who's going to these places? Mostly young French wannabes. Young French people who wannabe Americans or young people of other nationalities who wannabe French? |
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Mxsmanic wrote: So who's going to these places? Mostly young French wannabes. Young French people who wannabe Americans or young people of other nationalities who wannabe French? |
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Ronald Hands wrote: poldy wrote: I like flaneur (there should be a circonflexe over the a). Edmund White wrote an enjoyable book titled The Flaneur: a stroll through the paradoxes of Paris (Bloomsbury, 2001). The woman who wrote the Letter from Paris for the New Yorker magazine for many years chose the pen name Janet Flanner, which many suspected was a tribute to "flâneur". I think Walter Benjamin also wrote an essay defining the breed. I like the word, too. -- Ron I got the word from Benjamin. |
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Ronald Hands wrote: poldy wrote: I like flaneur (there should be a circonflexe over the a). Edmund White wrote an enjoyable book titled The Flaneur: a stroll through the paradoxes of Paris (Bloomsbury, 2001). The woman who wrote the Letter from Paris for the New Yorker magazine for many years chose the pen name Janet Flanner, which many suspected was a tribute to "flâneur". I think Walter Benjamin also wrote an essay defining the breed. I like the word, too. -- Ron I got the word from Benjamin. |
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poldy writes:
Young French people who wannabe Americans or young people of other nationalities who wannabe French? The former. -- Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly. |
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poldy writes:
Young French people who wannabe Americans or young people of other nationalities who wannabe French? The former. -- Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly. |
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Gregory Morrow writes:
This is amusing because here in the US Indiana the US state is considered a rather dullish and backward place...populated by folks who could charitably be called "slow learners".... Judging from the logo on the café, the reference is to American aboriginals, not the State of Indiana. -- Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly. |
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