{"id":1184,"date":"2009-02-23T15:50:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T20:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2009-02-23T15:50:10","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T20:50:10","slug":"lunching-out-in-southern-france-by-anivid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1184","title":{"rendered":"Lunching out in Southern France by Anivid."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In France we still have <em>midi,<\/em> or siesta \u2013 meaning shops and offices closed from noon to e.g. 2 p.m. during workdays.<br \/>\nA lot of people are using the time for having lunch together in a nearby restaurant.<br \/>\nWe chose a restaurant which is also a shop, selling bread, wine and specialties.<br \/>\nEvery morning when going for the bread, I\u2019m studying the menu cards, observing what\u2019s today\u2019s special in the different places.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/s-img_3148.JPG' title='s-img_3148.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/s-img_3148.JPG' alt='s-img_3148.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\nToday it was Salmon, delicious cooked in foil with slices of lemon on the top and a couple of clams (cocquille Saint-Jacques) in each end.<br \/>\nCooking in foil serves the same purpose as cooking in <em>bain-marie<\/em>, namely to keep the food out of direct contact with the cooking media, whether it be water or oil. When properly wrapped the food tend to keep more of its natural flavors and fragrances during this indirect cooking.<br \/>\nOn the side we got a little bowl with chopped haricot vert (green string beans) and leek, and some rice as a mix of wild rice and rice from Camargue, the famous natural region in Southern France (the delta of the river Rh\u00f4ne) where the horses are bread, and where the wild fowls, live in the marsh.<br \/>\nThe wild rice is also called water oats, as it botanically is no rice at all, but of a different genus (Zizania) than the white\/brown rice (Oryza).<br \/>\nAfter the sumptuous meal (at $ 15.25) we took a stroll in the lovely spring sun, and soon found an open place where the outdoor caf\u00e9es flourished.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/s-img_3151.JPG' title='s-img_3151.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/s-img_3151.JPG' alt='s-img_3151.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere they served us a nice <em>petit caf\u00e9<\/em> a concept which costs $1.50-1.90 all over France.<br \/>\nCoffee in France is rather on the strong side, hence the glas of water.<br \/>\nAs always, the coffee was served with a little sweet on the side, a chocolate covered almond, pure chocolate, or as in this case, a little spiced cookie called Speculaas (originally dutch).<br \/>\nSigning out: Anivid, gastronomy and culture \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In France we still have midi, or siesta \u2013 meaning shops and offices closed from noon to e.g. 2 p.m. during workdays. A lot of people are using the time for having lunch together in a nearby restaurant. We chose a restaurant which is also a shop, selling bread, wine and specialties. Every morning when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1184\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lunching out in Southern France by Anivid.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}