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Old July 29th, 2004, 01:10 AM
Gregory Morrow
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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....

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Greg



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Old July 29th, 2004, 01:10 AM
Gregory Morrow
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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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Old July 29th, 2004, 01:10 AM
Gregory Morrow
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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



  #74  
Old July 29th, 2004, 05:04 AM
poldy
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In article ,
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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Old July 29th, 2004, 05:04 AM
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In article ,
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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Old July 29th, 2004, 05:05 AM
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In article ,
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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Old July 29th, 2004, 05:05 AM
poldy
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In article ,
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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Old July 29th, 2004, 05:14 AM
Mxsmanic
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poldy writes:

Young French people who wannabe Americans or young people of other
nationalities who wannabe French?


The former.

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Old July 29th, 2004, 05:14 AM
Mxsmanic
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poldy writes:

Young French people who wannabe Americans or young people of other
nationalities who wannabe French?


The former.

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Old July 29th, 2004, 05:18 AM
Mxsmanic
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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.

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