Word: avallon
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...believed in having only the simplest food -- always fish on Friday, very little meat, no salt, sugar or other seasonings, and absolutely no coffee." A great revelation concerning the wonders of food came in 1929, when Fisher, while in France, dined at the Hostellerie de la Poste in Avallon. "The dish that forever changed my idea about food was mashed potatoes, dripping with butter," she recalls. "It wasn't only that it was perfectly made but most of all that it was served as a separate course. At home potatoes always came as an automatic adjunct to meat. Seeing them...
Back in Paris from a campaign tour of his home constituency of Auxerre-Avallon, France's Foreign Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin reacted sharply to the German proposals. He called in to the Foreign Office the French Ambassadors at Berlin, London, Rome and Brussels, suggested to the Locarno Powers a new conference at Brussels this week to crack down once more on Germany...
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