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There is one really good joke in Jacques Derrida's Cinders. It takes some setting up. When he published the French texts Feu la Cendre and "Animadversions" (one on the left side of the page, the other on the right-- this is the kind of thing Derrida is always doing), he was asked to do a tape recording of the text...
...original French title Feu la Cendre would seem to be untranslatable as well, but Elvis Costello came close when he lamented "you're less tender and more tinder" in "Only Flame in Town...
...once one is seated, delights appear, marred only occasionally by a lax waiter or an overdone duck. There are sublimely puffy lump-crabmeat cakes and tender veal chops with morels. Not to be missed: profiteroles filled with foie gras. The kitchen also serves an original version of pot-au-feu for which the succulently moist, tarragon- scented chicken arrives with leeks and angel-hair pasta, not in the traditional bowl with soup but on a plate mantled with a cream-and-chicken- stock sauce...
HOTTEST NEWS The bistro. The food world seems to concur that this traditional favorite is back in style, but there is little agreement about what the word means. To some it stands for eateries serving such traditional French fare as coq au vin, pot-au-feu and gigot. To others a bistro is merely a cafe with quick and simple food, much of it indistinguishable from California cuisine. Symbolic of the confusion is the representation in a new book, American Bistro, by Irena Chalmers and Friends (Contemporary; $35). Cited are Kansas City's high-style American Restaurant and the posh...
...conclusion, I'm tempted to liken a viewing of House to sampling the gourmet French delicacy Pot au Feu, a tasty melange concocted by throwing every morsel of food in sight into a pot and stirring. House is horror scare 'em concocted by throwing every film cliche in sight into a pot and stirring. Pot au Feu is delicious and cheap by all accounts. House is neither. Save $5 and buy some French stew...