{"id":1746,"date":"2018-07-14T20:22:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T20:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2018-07-14T20:22:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T20:22:20","slug":"what-france-brings-to-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=1746","title":{"rendered":"What France Brings to the Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1965-e1531599310708.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1744\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1965-e1531599310708.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1965-e1531599310708.jpg 3024w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1965-e1531599310708-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1965-e1531599310708-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That French people come together on a hot summer afternoon to eat a ripe meal with their average fellow mortals &#8211; that makes me love the French.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>For what France brings to the table in the family of nations IS the table, the utter love of fully immersing in finer points of food.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It might be<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>a crisped skin of a duck, c\u00eapes, the potatoes of course golden; a wine that takes no prisoners.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The lunch might take two hours or even three. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cWe\u2019ll all arrive at noon at the same time,\u201d the French saying goes.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Live in time, don\u2019t worry about it.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If this consciousness is the French tradition, gift and patrimony, does everyone get to sit at the table? In restaurants above the Victor Hugo market place in Toulouse (one amazing food town), the salt of the earth gather to eat their traditional fare. \u00a0There are &#8220;etrangers&#8221; who dig into the fat-laced patrimonial magret with their families like they were born to it..<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>France as a nation-state may devolve someday, but ripeness as an idea in the mortal should endure.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Happy Bastille Day!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1743\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_2015.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"363\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_2015.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_2015-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_2015-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_2015-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That French people come together on a hot summer afternoon to eat a ripe meal with their average fellow mortals &#8211; that makes me love the French.\u00a0 For what France brings to the table in the family of nations IS &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=1746\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[730,733,731,732],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bastille-day","tag-marche-victor-hugo","tag-patrimony","tag-toulouse"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-sa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1747,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions\/1747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}