[WWI] Adolphe Pegoud

[Jim Landon]

Fascinating picture of living in France. Thanks for sharing.

Jim

From: 2kermavio at orange.fr
To: wwi at wwi-models.org
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:05:52 +0200
Subject: Re: [WWI] Adolphe Pegoud










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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