This is Beetroot
Jellied moose nose 
17 June 2003, 11:02
Why don’t I hear about these things until they’ve already gone? Julian Barnes (whom I heard on the CBC on Writers & Company back in 1996, engendering the growth of a small stack of still-unread books on my shelf) just wrote his last Pedant in the Kitchen column for The Guardian.
I’d let this one pass without mention, if it didn’t evoke market experiences in Holland and France which shall not be revisited in Canada. Are you being served? puts me in mind of amassing the makings of a jambalaya in Utrecht’s open market, cruising the narrow lanes of Annecy looking for the right mouldy sausage, receiving an impromptu treatise on the Greek origin of goat feta cheese from Wageningen’s kaasboer, and asking for my bacon to be cut triple-thick (I now forget the Dutch sentence I cobbled together to couch the dubious term trippeldik) at Albert Heijn.
More love:
- Travel diary of a neophyte (doesn’t mention the high-pressure sales of hawkers crying their wares at close range)
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