Word: jambon
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...pangs of hunger in my stomach. Fresh off my flight from home, I had been promptly abandoned by my numbingly French host family and had bravely ventured out in search of my first French meal. Unfortunately, in this astronomically expensive and quite residential quartier, baguette sandwiches with camembert or jambon simply do not abound.After an inordinate number of blocks, I could sense the blisters begin to burgeon on my heels. There I was in the City of Lights, which I had always planned to eat my way through, without a boulangerie, patisserie, or marché in sight. But I quickly...
...terrific borscht and blini; and Le Jardin de Budapest and Hungaria, both offering Hungarian specialties like stuffed cabbage and Hungarian sauerkraut. For Slovaks, Poles, Estonians and Slovenians, though, the only way to get home cooking is to cook it at home. Luckily, shops like Polskie Delikatesy, Le Roi du Jambon and Charcuterie Hongroise import meats, pickles, spices and canned sauerkraut. But sometimes you can find home in unlikely places. Many evenings after work, staff at the Czech mission to the E.U. gather in a Congolese bar called Beverly Hills, in the African neighborhood Matonge...
...plot takes as many turns as the actors, who fall down way too much. But that too much was perfect for Tucci. To foment zaniness, he created the "Jambon d'Or"--the Golden Ham--an award given daily to the actor "who went the furthest in their shamelessness. The winner got to keep it overnight. The next day you had to give it back. It was an independent film; you had to share the same award...
...fashion statements, her classic black funeral ensemble accessorized by a stiletto-red stole and umbrella-sized hat speaks volumes about her feelings for her husband. Everyone assumes that his death must have been a vindictive murder, until police discover that he was choked by a particularly malicious sandwich au jambon...
...great number of our countrymen will not be cooking ye Xmas turkey or ye mince pie at all. They are instead preparing outlandish dishes that I can barely spelle or pronownce. These platters have such names as ortolans á la périgourdine, chausson de jambon au foie gras et truffes, polio in umido, media yemista, klephtiko charti, kalua pig, civet de lievre, poularde de Bresse a la demi-deuil, moussaka, agnello in vescica con ginepro, frit-tatas, beignets, gaufrettes, gazpacho, gefullte Schweinerippchen, pastello di pesce, dim sum, kaeng keao wan, shashlik, crudites, ratatouille, pho, ktapodi krassato, calfs head (aargh!) caillou...