Comments on: Duck! http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/08/27/duck/ Dada, bring my beer in the living room Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:21:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: heather http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/08/27/duck/#comment-1541 heather Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:13:51 +0000 http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/08/27/duck/#comment-1541 <p>un-duck-related, but this made me think of iris when i read it in jacques pepin's memoir "the apprentice: my life in the kitchen" last week...about his daughter claudine:</p> <p>"she was still standing in her crib, not yet walking, the first time she sampled caviar, a beautiful beluga that i had spread on a piece of buttered bread. she licked off the caviar, handed me back the mushy bread, and said "encore, papa."</p> <p>jacques put "encore" in italics, so you can just imagine the tiny, squeaky french inflection peeping from the crib.</p> <p>like iris, but french.</p> un-duck-related, but this made me think of iris when i read it in jacques pepin’s memoir “the apprentice: my life in the kitchen” last week…about his daughter claudine:

“she was still standing in her crib, not yet walking, the first time she sampled caviar, a beautiful beluga that i had spread on a piece of buttered bread. she licked off the caviar, handed me back the mushy bread, and said “encore, papa.”

jacques put “encore” in italics, so you can just imagine the tiny, squeaky french inflection peeping from the crib.

like iris, but french.

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