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Paris Notes (2)
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Padraig Breathnach wrote: Strolling: Paris has given us a word: boulevardier. It conveys something particular about the city. Paris is a place which offers much to the visitor who simply rambles about. We rambled, and found lively neighbourhoods, interesting buildings and monuments, parks, and pleasant cafés in which to sit for a while to rest the feet. Wherever you ramble, you are likely to come on some guide-book attraction. But most of all, the appeal of wandering about is to see vignettes of the life of the city and its people. I like flaneur (there should be a circonflexe over the a). |
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Paris Notes (2)
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Padraig Breathnach wrote: Strolling: Paris has given us a word: boulevardier. It conveys something particular about the city. Paris is a place which offers much to the visitor who simply rambles about. We rambled, and found lively neighbourhoods, interesting buildings and monuments, parks, and pleasant cafés in which to sit for a while to rest the feet. Wherever you ramble, you are likely to come on some guide-book attraction. But most of all, the appeal of wandering about is to see vignettes of the life of the city and its people. I like flaneur (there should be a circonflexe over the a). |
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Paris Notes (2)
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Padraig Breathnach wrote: Strolling: Paris has given us a word: boulevardier. It conveys something particular about the city. Paris is a place which offers much to the visitor who simply rambles about. We rambled, and found lively neighbourhoods, interesting buildings and monuments, parks, and pleasant cafés in which to sit for a while to rest the feet. Wherever you ramble, you are likely to come on some guide-book attraction. But most of all, the appeal of wandering about is to see vignettes of the life of the city and its people. I like flaneur (there should be a circonflexe over the a). |
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Olivers wrote: While Houston may not be near to Madrid, it's near to Mexico, and the largest single component of its population is now or will soon be Hispanic, most of them of Mexican origin. With that many Mexican Americans (and no small supply of illegals/mojados), the number and variety of Mexican restaurants, not just "TexMex, a style of its own, but of everyone of Mexico's numerous regional cuisines (or local adaptations), is almost limitless. Within a single couple of miles on one street, I can dine from Matamoros to Baja and down to the Guatamalan Border and most stops in between, from street food to high dollar emulations of upscale Mexico City. That's why Frank (and most other of we Texans who disgree on much but less often on Mexican food) might not expect much from a Madrid Taqueria. But most Americans probably experience "Mexican food" at Taco Bell or Chili's, Chevy's or regional taqueria chains. You can always tell which places are "authentic." You see Mexicans going there and they feature things like lengua and barbacoa. |
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Paris Notes (2)
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Olivers wrote: While Houston may not be near to Madrid, it's near to Mexico, and the largest single component of its population is now or will soon be Hispanic, most of them of Mexican origin. With that many Mexican Americans (and no small supply of illegals/mojados), the number and variety of Mexican restaurants, not just "TexMex, a style of its own, but of everyone of Mexico's numerous regional cuisines (or local adaptations), is almost limitless. Within a single couple of miles on one street, I can dine from Matamoros to Baja and down to the Guatamalan Border and most stops in between, from street food to high dollar emulations of upscale Mexico City. That's why Frank (and most other of we Texans who disgree on much but less often on Mexican food) might not expect much from a Madrid Taqueria. But most Americans probably experience "Mexican food" at Taco Bell or Chili's, Chevy's or regional taqueria chains. You can always tell which places are "authentic." You see Mexicans going there and they feature things like lengua and barbacoa. |
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Paris Notes (2)
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Olivers wrote: While Houston may not be near to Madrid, it's near to Mexico, and the largest single component of its population is now or will soon be Hispanic, most of them of Mexican origin. With that many Mexican Americans (and no small supply of illegals/mojados), the number and variety of Mexican restaurants, not just "TexMex, a style of its own, but of everyone of Mexico's numerous regional cuisines (or local adaptations), is almost limitless. Within a single couple of miles on one street, I can dine from Matamoros to Baja and down to the Guatamalan Border and most stops in between, from street food to high dollar emulations of upscale Mexico City. That's why Frank (and most other of we Texans who disgree on much but less often on Mexican food) might not expect much from a Madrid Taqueria. But most Americans probably experience "Mexican food" at Taco Bell or Chili's, Chevy's or regional taqueria chains. You can always tell which places are "authentic." You see Mexicans going there and they feature things like lengua and barbacoa. |
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Paris Notes (2)
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Olivers wrote: While Houston may not be near to Madrid, it's near to Mexico, and the largest single component of its population is now or will soon be Hispanic, most of them of Mexican origin. With that many Mexican Americans (and no small supply of illegals/mojados), the number and variety of Mexican restaurants, not just "TexMex, a style of its own, but of everyone of Mexico's numerous regional cuisines (or local adaptations), is almost limitless. Within a single couple of miles on one street, I can dine from Matamoros to Baja and down to the Guatamalan Border and most stops in between, from street food to high dollar emulations of upscale Mexico City. That's why Frank (and most other of we Texans who disgree on much but less often on Mexican food) might not expect much from a Madrid Taqueria. But most Americans probably experience "Mexican food" at Taco Bell or Chili's, Chevy's or regional taqueria chains. You can always tell which places are "authentic." You see Mexicans going there and they feature things like lengua and barbacoa. |
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Paris Notes (2)
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 |
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Paris Notes (2)
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 |
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Paris Notes (2)
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 |
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