[WWI] Adolphe Pegoud

[Helen and Chris]

Bonsoir Eric,

> Are you really sure that we all live to eat ? ;-)

Bien sur!

I've had the good fortune to live in France for the past 10 years.  So I've nearly got used to the two hour lunch breaks where everything closes between noon and 2.00pm. 

I've nearly got used to almost the smallest village having it's own boulangerie where a vast selection of breads are baked on the premises.

I've nearly got used to be surrounded by fields devoted to food production - potatoes, wheat, barley, peas, beans (French, what else?), maize, brasicas  etc., etc.

I've nearly got used to every other shop being either a restaurant of one type or another or somewhere where you can buy foodstuffs.

I've nearly got used to Sunday lunch starting (socially) at around 11.00am (food being served from about 12) and ending in the early evening.

I've nearly got used to the markets where fresh food of all kinds is piled high.

I've learned why French cooking is renowned the world over.

I've learned where the English slang word "Scoff", meaning to eat a lot (often, but not always, quickly), comes from - the great French chef Escoffier.  There is also a school of thought which suggests that the same word meaning to deride, also comes from the great man when asked his opinion of English cuisine!  Pah!!

So, Eric, if the French don't live to eat, you put on a pretty good show of doing so!

And if all this way ot stuff sounds like an advert for France, it is.  It's part of why we chose to come and live here.

Chris.
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