Monday, December 12, 2005

from Paris: briefly

What makes me think that the oysters were fresh last night?

The little wormy thing on the outside was moving like mad.


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fresh and honest

What makes me say Paris is beautiful? Oh, come on. It is.


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december view


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walk across the Seine


Why is this post so short?
Today is my work day. I have day-long meetings at Paris University.

4 comments:

  1. Your pictures and words provide me with a delightful distraction from working on my Santa cookies.
    L'homme ne vit pas seulement de pain. Usually I’m willing to try new foods, however, I don’t know if I could eat some that was still moving. In regard to your previous post: Having never learned proper cheese etiquette, I could use some enlightenment also.

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  2. Paris IS beautiful (but that thing doesn't even look like any oyster I ever saw).

    SCohn

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  3. Nancy: you'd know this much: you get a tray with some half dozen cheeses. Big chunks of them. You are a regular oinker if you wipe out two of them and substantially deplete the remaining four or five. I mean, think of the economics: The cheese course is usually around 10 Euros in most medium priced restuarnats. This dude just ate at least 25 Euros worth of cheese.

    SCohn: I turned one shell upside down and around so you could see the bottom, so it looks odd. This one was especially encrusted with all sort of brittle shell matter -- home and fodder for these little critters I suppose. The guy shucking them was doing so outside the restaurant, at the market stall, where passers-by could buy their handful to take home. The stuff was oozing freshness. Literally.

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  4. Paris is beautiful and I'd love to return for a visit. The last time I was there was in 1992 and it was my honeymoon. Maybe you and I can go together sometime. It won't be as romantic as my last visit, but I know it'll be a good time anyway.

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