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Jean, note on this thread, Bob@nice lives in Rouret. Try emailing him. The tel number I have is 04 93 77 39 30

Did you try that recipe in the article?

Yes!!!! it was. I was staying nearby in Monteliou on a farm and was served a cassolet and asked about her traditional cassole. She gave me directions to the Nots. A few months later, Saveur published an article Searching for the secrets of Cassoulet. In one photo, it pictures Phillipe Not at the wheel.

John, I rcently bought a book on line, "Market Day in Provence"by Michele de La Pradelle(who died in 2004) She was director od D'Etudes at Ecole des Hautes en Sciences sociales and author of Paris Luxe. I started to read it last night and I thought it would be about the markets in general but this is a social study of only the market in Capentras. It's been translated from the French title, "Les vendredis de Capentras: faire son marché in Provenceou ailliers."

This whole thread should be mailed to Hèvin. I once wrote a letter to a chef who has several seafood restos called shacks about how disappointed I was in his grilled lobster. It was dry, papery. I was at first so excited to see it on the menu because you rarely see it on menus in the Boston area. In Brittany and Normandy, it is fantastic. Anyway, the chef/owner never answered.

Cassolet is made in a dish called a Cassole. I bought one in the SW from one of the last few potters that makes them

In Uzes, The Trois Salons and the Bistro du Grezac, I highly recommend. The Saturday market spills out on the streets surrounding the Place Des Herbs. Stop in the shop La Maison de L'Uzage, the owner is very helpful.

So would I , Laidback, though I'm in kiddy garden dining compared to you:)

The article just came on line! http://www.francetoday.com/articles/great_...bars_paris.html

Yes, sorry for my typo.

France today has it's list of Great Hotel Bars of Paris: The Endlessly Chic-Costes Bar at Hotel Costes, The Terribly Sexy-Bar at Hotel Crillon, The Class Act-Bar Fontainbleau at Hotel Meurice, The Temple of Style-Bar du Plaza Athenee, The utterly Discreet-Bar Anglais at Hotel Raphael, The Gentleman's bar-Hemingway bar at the Ritz, The Impossibly Romantic-Dokhan's Bar at Hotel Trocadero's Dokhan's, The Suspiciously Mod-The Bar at Murano Urban Resort, the Decadent-Lutece and Ernest Bars at Hotel Lutetia, The Anglophile's Choice-Duke's Bar at Hotel Westminister, The New Kitsch-Ice Cube at Kube Hotel. The full descriptions of these bars was written by Ken Scrudata

Jean-Luc-Rbinal at the La chassagenette in the Camargue has opened his own small restaurant in Arles at 7 rue des Carnes, Arles Rumours say the organic farm will now have a bistro. If anyone has an update I'd like to know if that happens

To me, the Chestnut Hill one is the best! The others are poor cousins. Kendall Square is my second, the Harvard Square One I have only tried twice, I need several visits before I rate.

Jean Luc Rabanel, former chef at La Chassagnette in the Camargue has opened his own restaurant. www.rabanel.com 7 rue des carmes

WAAAaaa!! I missed out. The Reminet was closed for two weeks when I was there. You also have choices of some good Brasseries.

Laidback, how dare you poke fun of my fellow Bostonian poet, e.e.cummings

I recently was in Paris for 15 days and had a great time as a woman alone. I enjoyed every meal where I ate without an attiitude. My trip report may be here as well as at BJParis.

Most important, the three carry on bottles of olive oil from the Moulin Coop in Maussane. Tomate vert confiture, sweet olive confiture, Pastis 51, Suze.

I can't remember where I read it but that JPV opened a restaurant in Paris named "Market" or is this old news?

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/01/dining/01send.html

I read tonight that Tour Dárgent was demoted by Michelin.

I had the longest lunch and most fun at La Tour de Montlhery. What generous portions!!! I had Dos de cabillard with roti creme d'ail, an aside of cabbage laces with lardons and a boiled potato. My wine was white something like Feuily? Dome de Marais. I sat under the white glass dome. My first dish was the lovliest presention. The colors made me think of Provencecrevettes gambas de pleine mer aux herbes thai. King prawns with creme thai herb sauce. the yellow shade of the rice where the the giant prawns in their saffrony color sat and entwined with the green of parsley. Echine de cochon nor de bigare au citron de sicile was a cutlet of black pig from the pyrenees with lemon from sicily. dessert choice was: brise de manerine salad d'orang gateau Nantais-orange maltaisin salad with mousse served with Nantes specialty cake. I loved my sword fish at Gaya, but not the decor and ambiance, the other two I would return one day if ever I can. I had reserved the Guirlande for Valentin's day and had their special that was 25€. The Choice was a feuffeté d'oeufs broullés, creme de ciboulette ou terrine de canard aux pistaches (my choice) La plat: filet de daurade a la plancha, jus au gingembre, riotto Madras ou Salmis de pinadeau, gnochis de chataigne( my choice was the fish-daurade) dessert choices Parfait glace a la framboise ou mille feuille au chocolate(i had the mille feuille) as usually I had an apertif of suze and a muscato d'asti to sip with dessert. I always order the least expensive bottle of wine in order to eat well and in this case it was a Bourgogne Aligote 2003... belated Valentine's greetings to you They gave me a copy of the menu otherwise I wouldn't remember

Gaya!! 4821.24 in reply to 4821.23 Bonjour Jo! I returned on Sunday after a 15 day wonderful, enriched trip. I thought I'd eat at the bar at Gaya's but my being short and my osteo-arthritis being active, I found it painful, too high a stool and the only table open had the same high stools so I sat upstairs which I preferred. There were photographs on the wall rather than the ultra-modern marine decor on the first floor. All the tables were corian with photographed algae imbedded. I had espadon(swordfish) that sat on a bed of cremed broccoli with salicornes On the side of my fish was couscous with bits of pineapple and apricot. (pinapple was used in manyy restos I noticed) desert was a creme brulet and my wine was from Langadoc. As usual my appertif of choice was Suze and my digestif calvados.

The're closed, the chef no longer with them. Maybe reopeming in June as a bistro. This months Saveur, ironically, named the restaurant the number one in this month's yearly issue of 100 best things.

Another interesting url http://www.yourgreatdaysinparis.com/po_tak...spersonally.htm