Harlequin, the calico cat, who had been watching attentively from his perch on the kitchen table, gave Morris a look of utter disdain at this last insistent howl of a chorus, jumped down and walked out of the room. “If Jacques Brel were still alive and well,” he seemed, with the slight flick [...]
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One•V•3
Posted in Part One, Section 5, tagged bread-baking, cat, Harlequin, Jacques Brel, Paris on November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Posted in Part One, Section 5, tagged bread-baking, pain aux fibres, pain aux figues, pain Campagrain, pain de campagne on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Ajoutez le pastis, C’est pas un pastiche…,” he wailed to the tune of Ne me quitte pas!:
Moi, je peine
Pour faire le pain,
Avec mes mains,
Le pain si fin:
Le pain de campagne,
—press, fold, turn—
Le pain Campagrain,
Le pain aux fibres
Le pain aux figues!
Ajoutez le Pastis!
Ajoutez le Pastis!
Ajoutez le Pastis!
—press, fold, turn—
Ajoutez le Pastis!
Part One•Section V•Paragraph 1
Posted in Part One, Section 5, tagged bread-baking, honey, lavender, pastis, perfection, provence on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Next time, he would add amaranth … and perhaps a handful of lightly toasted, finely chopped pinoli. And honey. Lavender honey. Morris enjoyed kneading the warm dough: press, fold, turn, press, fold, turn. He thought about the fields of lavender in Provence—a wash of purple, the insistent drone of bees, the distinctive camphoraceous [...]
