Au Coin Des Bons Enfants

I once had the privilege, to work with a former michelin star chef, at a diner called Le Chevalier, down in downest town Maastricht. He once owned the titled restaurant.

He didn't have the budget he once had, but he made sure that there was lobster on the menu. We had to collect all the lobstershells that came back, after having been emptied by le clientèle, and collect them inside buckets, getting frozen, until he would wreak his fond, for the bouillabaisse. I'll never forget that. He more or less ended up drinking himself to death, of course. But He did so in style. Cheers, Jos.

Mise en place.

Don't be too eager, to think that you know what it means. If you're being forced into being fast, that is.

S’il vous plait, ne mettez pas les enfants dans un coin!

But I'll ask this question: what is your earliest distinct memory of lobster (or any other food) ?

I wish my first memory were of bouillabaisse. But no. There was not much bouillabaisse in my humble home neighborhood.

There were foil-encased, frozen "TV dinners," however! Oddly, I remember the peas beneath the aluminum foil top, most of all. That and the real "turkey with gravy."

Surely, somebody else will have a more interesting ancient food memory than that. I'm sure @ErrerAtLine1 has even more interesting memories, for example, given the more interesting thing he's already shared.

Well I grew up in NC, country folk ya know and I still remember getting my butt spanked cause I wouldn't try some possum. Nope,just weren't gonna do it.

@Noflaps I liked the TV dinners because we did watch TV as we ate. Normally we were forced to sit at the kitchen table and watch each other eat.

@CSKA_Moscou I liked your video.

@zealandzen said in #6:
> @Noflaps I liked the TV dinners because we did watch TV as we ate. Normally we were forced to sit at the kitchen table and watch each other eat.
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> @CSKA_Moscou I liked your video.

it's a good film, notably because of Jean Reno (who played in mission impossible, Nikita...) in a fairly comic repertoire. it's even funnier for those who understand French, because there is a play on words between "coin", (quack) and "coing" the quince

> We had to collect all the lobstershells that came back, after having been emptied by le clientèle

That's a health code violation right? I don't think restaurants in Maastricht are allowed to take food from dirty plates and cook another meal with it.