Sardines
It would appear that Ryan doesn’t like sardines.
Modigliani is a most interesting character in art history. He was not Parisian. He was an emigre from Italy, but loved the freer art communities of Monmartre and Montparnasse. He was a bit of a scoundrel but yet, had an intoxicating nature… both literally and figuratively.
I’m with Ryan on this. In fact, as much as I wish it were otherwise, no seafood has much appeal for me. Unless it’s VERY fresh; as in, so fresh the fish only JUST updated its facebook before being caught.
But in our kid-making days, the hospitals had a “Celebration of Life” dinner for the new parents. They always served “Surf n Turf”; steak and lobster. (They wanted to enhance the bonding experience to the new kid by giving you a nice meal. Or some such.) We had four of those meals and every time I traded my lobster for my wife’s steak. (She really likes seafood.) So it worked out. (For the fifth boy they gave us a nice gift certificate to a terrific Chinese restaurant.)
Rats… now I’m hungry.
No? You don’t like the sardines? Okay, okay… I have taken a liking to them… it may have something to do with some sort of deficiency I have… omega whatevers… I also like the canned herring as well. You wife got two lobsters… nice.
Our first day in Aix here, and we went to one of the cafes on Cours Mirabeau (the main drag) and Nelson just wanted a plat de frites (a plate of fries) but when ordering, Judy and I didn’t catch that the plate we ordered for him came with a steak. That’d be why it cost 17 euros… said the bill. Luckily Judy likes steak… and I liked what she ordered (eggs and cheese over bread… er, Croc Monsieur, I think) in addition to my salad niscoise. C’est la vie.
No surprise Modigliani was a friend of Picasso; you can see the influence all over his work.
LOL @ Pete’s ‘Facebook-updating fish’ 😀
Brig: J’adore les fruits de mer 🙂 (Somehow, “fruits of the sea” sounds so much more romantic than “seafood”, n’est-ce pas?). I’m sorry, though, Brig: my nerd alarm went off regarding the “croque-monsieur”, so I looked it up at Wikipedia.
Apparently, a croque-monsieur is ham and cheese, while ham, cheese and a fried egg is a croque-madame. I’ll spare you the full croque list (that’s why I supplied the link to the wiki article), but: I do like the sound of the croque gagnet; and it probably will come as a surprise to no-one that McDonald’s has its own… the “McDo”. Mind you, they also sell BEER in French Mickey D’s, it seems… (I expect to see a pic of Brig in a McD’s with a beer, now 😀 Have one for me!)
“Quarter Pounder mit Käse und ein Bier, bitte.”
I’ve been keeping THAT phrase in mind for decades. (I used to say Quarter Pounder in German, but I’ve heard variations using English or German.)
I’ve never been to Europe but am looking forward to going some day. One of the mundane things I’d like to achieve while there is to eat at a McD’s in each country we visit. The vast, VAST majority of our meals there will be local cuisine, but I think trying “American” Food – especially the highly-processed, universally recognized food of an American fast food restaurant – will provide an interesting look into European perceptions of America at a very basic level.