- fraises des bois
- about fifteeen varieties of cherries
- stone fruit you don't have to go to California for
- threee to five bakeries in any town of 2500 people
- Guilt-free foie gras (I should say Charlie Trotter-free foie gras, that little worm)
- Mediterranean rascasse
- the silver dollar sized crabs called favouille
- Olive oil mills in every other town in Provence that crush French olives and give you the best olive oil bar none -- better than Spanish, Greek, Italian, Middle Eastern, wherever
- Brebis of any variety
- Goat cheese they made yesterday from goats that forage freely
- baguettes that crunch, but have a an indescribable crumb and then go stale in four hours and cost less than 90 (euro) cents
- Croissants made with 84+ butter and French wheat flour
- Onglet sold in chain supermarkets
- Thirty kinds of saucisson at marché
- Twenty kinds of olives cured by hand
- Citron confit sold by the piece
- Tarte au citron
- Pine-nut crescents
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- Fruits confits
- poivrons grillés a la Nicoise
- socca
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- tourte de blette
- soupe de poissons
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- Cavaillon melons
- Tomme de Savoie
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Phil, one of my most long-lived and dearest of friends is a quiet, wise man of many strengths. His one fault, and possibly his only one, was moving 22 years ago from the confines of Brookline, when we lived a brisk ten minute walk from one another, to a front-runner for ur-suburb of Boston, Milton, Massachusetts. But it seemed to be a move that took, both for the man and the town. Phil is not only an astute observer of the local scene, which, as "Tip" O'Neill knew, is where politics, if not all global phenonmena, begin. He has become a vital part of the way the town he has come to love is run. I can only hope Milton always deserves what it has in him. - Bill Ives | KM : Food & Music
What do knowledge management: theory and practice, and food and music have to do with one another? In the person of my friend Bill Ives, nationally renowned lecturer and consultant on all matters knowledge managerial and blogotherial—everything. During the week, his blog, "Portals & KM" is devoted to matters of interest to professionals and serious amateurs. On the weekend, Bill digs into his favorite subjects: Food and Music, and about which he is equally interesting and yet characteristically modest. - identity theory | Birnbaum : The Narrative Thread
You may think Robert Birnbaum spreads himself too thin. But there's a lot of him to spread. I speak, of course, literarily and culturally: I'll withhold judgment on the intellectual, until he shows a little more serious intent with the copy editing. More of what we love Robert for—never shutting up. This is the other current major repository of the national cultural treasure of his 20+ years worth of conversations with noteworthy authors. James Lipton has nothing on Robert—and Robert is younger, cuter, and available. - The Morning News / Birnbaum conversations
This will pay big dividends. Literati will be enthralled. Izzy will feel even more important (and more significantly will get that frisson he so seldom gets, as when he's accorded respect) because someone paid attention. But most importantly, this will help keep Izzy off my back, and make him continue to owe me big time.
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