Friday, January 18, 2008

Dispatch from Paris

I just got this email from my sister (punctuation, capitalization and all, obvs.):
you know what's wrong with the fact i can't speak french? i accidentally ate veal testicles for lunch today. interesting. i ate at this really really good bistro i read about on a blog before i came here. in an alley in the marais and it's not labeled outside so i finally felt like i ate at a "real" parisian bistro. i got the tuna tartare, then veal (i thought it was just normal veal) oh and it was cooked rare bc i forgot that in france when you say "medium" it's like our rare and then a duo of creme brulees (glad i played it safe on the dessert since mon plat was unexpected) and they gave you a bunch of bread on a skewer. it was still warm and had walnuts in it. so so good. i actually think i might go back but at the end of the meal my waitress (who spoke zero english just like everyone else i meet in this city) gave me a restaurant book for paris, so im going to go look through it and take a nap before i go shopping. anyway, talk to you all later!

Again...to be 23 and on break in grad school...

P.S. This is the third time she's been to France (and Paris) and she took, like, 7 years of French in school. So I can't really feel badly for her.

2 comments:

Cail said...

My first thought? That it's exactly like when Brenda and Donna went to Paris (while Dylan and Kelly stayed behind at the beach) and accidentally ate veal brains.

Kit Pollard said...

Ooooh. I hope she remembered to take her Balzac with her, so she has something to read while she moodily sips coffee...

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