Julia Frey's Blog – November 2009 Archive (2)
Amuse-Bouche No. 17: My Little Cabbage -- If you learn only one word in French, make it "chou".
by Julia Frey
(julia.frey@aya.yale.edu)
If you learn only one word in French, make it chou.
Sunday night, coming back from the country, everyone’s starving.
Philippe: “Venez donc chez nous, manger à la fortune du pot (Come to our house and eat potluck). Nous avons de la soupe aux choux (cabbage soup).”
Bénédicte, our local food expert, steps… Continue
Added by Julia Frey on November 30, 2009 at 12:00pm — 10 Comments
Amuse-Bouche No. 16: Say it with flowers, but don’t give a friend chrysanthèmes!
by Julia Frey
But don’t give a friend chrysanthèmes !
“Comme c’est bizarre,” says Colombine, “every year for la fête des mères (Mother’s Day: in France, the last Sunday in May) ma belle-mère (my mother-in law) gives me a cactus!”
“C’est peut-être symbolique,” I answer. The arid cactus, with its prickly defense system, makes me craindre le pire (fear the… Continue
Added by Julia Frey on November 1, 2009 at 8:30am — 7 Comments
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