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[adularia]

Reposted from my comment in her journal, because it's not a bad piece of food writing for being completely off-the-cuff:

Dinner at Les Halles! This was Saturday night.

We had no plans to go there until arjache bought Bourdain's book at the Strand and we were reading it with great fascination on the train home. I live, in large part, for uttering the

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[rocket_jockey]

That dessert is commonly known as bananas Foster; it originated in New Orleans. I have a recipe for it kicking about, if you're interested.

[adularia]

Heeee, cool. I wonder why they didn't name it as such on the menu. Bourdain's American, but maybe he didn't want the specificity of naming it thus?

[rocket_jockey]

In theory, the restaurant that originated the recipe owns the name but it's used so widely I personally would say they've lost out on the privilege - if you don't defend it vigorously enough, an intellectual property right goes away.

[sabdapranam]

Excellent food porn! I can almost taste it myself.