The Parmageddon
Posted on 07/10/2008 10:28:35 AM PDT by darkness78
Parlez vous Francais? No? Now might be a good time to learn. Chicago, it seems, is experiencing a bit of a French incursion. And according to one imposing Frenchman, Christophe David: "It's growing. And it is not finished." Which sounds rather threatening. David, who is executive chef at the elegant, 3 1/2 star restaurant NoMI, where he was sitting in a patch of late morning sunlight recently, drinking green tea, was one of the earliest arrivals in a mini-battalion of French chefs who've been under surveillance by fooderati since arriving in town. If you've ever eaten his visually arresting, contemporary update of high-end classical French cuisine, you realize his threat is actually a great promise.
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Sounds like someone is pedaling some “Gordon Ramsey posh masterpieces”.
I hope I don’t have to speak French. All I know is, “Merci beacoup.”
” he was sitting in a patch of late morning sunlight recently, drinking green tea...
But of course.
Chicago’s idea of French cusine is deep-dish quiche.
I don’t know how to order in French. All I can say is “Merci beaucoup.”.............
French fries!
Just this morning I was looking at a magazine about Chicago and it looked like about 2/3 of the 30 or so restaurants they mentioned were French. I think this is a great time to open a Jewish deli, a Spanish Tapas bar, a Portuguese restaurant or something else besides French.
great no problem-but didn’t Daley ban the sale fo Foie Gras-how can you have a French me without Foie Gras.
(Give me a plate of pierogis and cold beers and I’m happy)
The Parmageddon
Cheezy smells of feet and armpits. Yuck! Maron!
I believe the ban was unbanned (and that Daley called the ban silly).
The French have a lot of annoying qualities. But, man, their food, cheese and wine is awesome. And their women aren’t bad, either. Ah, Paris in the summer- good times, good times (though I actually ended up dating a German girl and an Italian one when I studied there in law school. The only time I dated a French girl was in the UK. Go figure)
I think I’ll call the wife and go have some steak frites tonight.....
Most modern cooking owes a great deal to the French who learned and expanded what the Italians had done.
But, Chicago banned foie gras until recently so I am not sure they are as fond of French cooking as this alludes.
“The French have a lot of annoying qualities. But, man, their food, cheese and wine is awesome. And their women aren’t bad”
Good food and good looking women...What else do we need to enjoy life?
“What else do we need to enjoy life?”
A full bottle of St. Remy XO.
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