Cannes 2010 is already here I see that Paris is there again butchering her French and I am doing the thing that I failed to completely do last year and that is learn French.I kind of would like a do over of that trip for the language and a couple more reasons.
I have been thinking about my trip to France a lot lately. So I tried to re-create my favorite meal at this little Moroccan place in a small town outside of Nice. The lure of the tagine has been calling me ever since that day, that and the Moroccan mint tea service.
Chicken with olives and preserved lemons. (pictured)
I looked around a bit and found a place called Tagine (Coincidentally co-partnered by Ryan Gosling) but their menu was down on their website and I had to have chicken with preserved lemons and olive. So I chose a restaurant in West Hollywood. Fabric covered the ceiling and walls, pillows line stools and floors and couches, mirrors, beaded curtains and everything I think would be in a restaurant in Casablanca, even though I have never been. This place in LA was much unlike the place in France, very over-stated.
The food was good, we were the only people their and we got a little too much attention from the owner, who told my roommate that he would sell his camels for her.
It is funny the way food can connect you to a place.
Authentic Moroccan mint tea might be my favorite thing ever. It's what got me drinking tea in the first place. There was a crepe stand near the hostel I stayed at when I first got to France and he'd give you a free cup when you bought a crepe. Delicious! So we have to go sometime. Even if just for that.
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