French stuff – Orangette https://orangette.net Thu, 11 Feb 2016 20:36:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 Before you know it https://orangette.net/2010/09/before-you-know-it/ https://orangette.net/2010/09/before-you-know-it/#comments Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:12:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2010/09/11/before-you-know-it Somewhere, a woman named Corentine is serving leeks vinaigrette for dinner. It’s been ten years, but I know it. Corentine was my host mother in Paris, the year that I was 21 and studying abroad. She had the most magnificent name I had ever heard and something a little Jane Birkin, just a little, about her looks. Whenever someone asks me how I learned to cook or how I got into food, I usually credit my parents, but I should also credit Corentine. She and I didn’t have a lot in common, but food was enough, and we seized it. I ate at her table for six months, and she taught me what she thought I should know. She taught…

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