Will Weed for Food

July 26, 2004

Ikea’s new packaging strategy. Actually this is part of an elaborate sneaky garden design by Kristine and Fred. We’re looking forward to the recipes but by the looks of these leafy babies we’ll only be making weed butter.
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Surf and Turf

July 24, 2004

The results of our adhoc fish and sausage fry, on a private beach along the shaded banks of the Vis. It was a perfect summer’s day, a wonderful and unusual conglommeration of people, each one more interesting to me than the next. The day unfolded from pleasure to pleasure, the company, conversation food and location(s) all were perfect. I am so happy to be here.
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Un vraiment couteau l’Aguiole!

July 23, 2004

After leaving the yurt encampment on the Aubrac Thursday, JT, Kristi and I decide to go down to the village of l’Aguiole to check out the village famous for its handmade, bee-backed knives. At lunch Kristi and John surprise me with un cadeau d’alliance! Tears well up in my eyes and I become the incredibly proud and honoured owner of this boney beauty, a real cowgirl’s knife.

In the last 36 hrs I have used this knife to: open up 2 bottles of wine, cut the tops off some garlic, cut the tops off some Cevenol onions (so sweet you can eat them raw), cut my dinner twice, cut some wedges of creamy fresh Cevenol sheep’s cheese, cut up some porky sausages, and gut one kilo of sardines! Actually, Kristine did all the gutting.

Pictured above are the swift hands of new friend Kristine who on the banks of the river Vis, and with the aid of l’Aguiole extricates the innards of an about-to-be-bbq’d sardine.
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