Food is the great universal topic. Go anywhere and talk with just about anyone and know that after pleasantries are exchanged, the conversation will almost always get around to food..eating it, buying it, preparing it. We love to talk about the parties we've attended, bar-b-ques we've hosted, dinners we've made, the desserts we've savored and the recipes we've mastered. I think we are lucky in that our conversations always come back to food in some capacity or another. It's always best when food is shared, both across the table and with our words. Come..let's share the bounty! Cooks talk!

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Burger ooh-la-la!

“It has the taste of the forbidden, the illicit — the subversive, even,” said Hélène Samuel, a restaurant consultant here. “Eating with your hands, it’s pure regression. Naturally, everyone wants it.”

What does everyone want in Paris these days? A hamburger. I've eaten them all my life and never thought of myself as subversive, but if I ever take a trip to France I can truly let my anarchic flag fly. It's truly a foodlover's world when one of the basics of American style "cuisine" has hit the bigtime in the tonier restaurants of Paris, and basic French peasant foods like Coq au Vin are made in humble, copper potted, granite counter topped kitchens in the suburbs of Seattle.

Burgers as the ultimate in forbidden foods. Who would have guessed? After reading this I think it's time for In-N-Out burger to think about expanding it's territory, not up here to Washington but to France. They need to show those Parisian chefs what a real hamburger is all about! And how would you say "I'd like a Double Double with Cheese" in French, anyway?

Cooks Talk!


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/dining/16paris.html
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