No, I am not talking about dog merde on the sidewalks or drunk student tourists. I recently hosted a “low country boil” dinner party for ten friends in my apartment. I googled Pat Conroy to find the recipe I used for this shrimp, sausage, corn, potato, onions and garlic feast, also known as Frogmore stew to my yankee friends. In my hometown of Savannah, GA the boil is drained and dumped onto newspapers- here I folded French newspapers into placemats. A good southern time was had by all complete with cornbread, and a pecan chocolate chip pie baked by my friend Connie whose uncle owned Anton’s restaurant in Savannah, a popular white tablecoth eatery of my youth.
Thanksgiving found us with friends at Breakfast in America in Paris, including Annabel Simms, author of the “One Hour from Paris” series. Then Saturday night we organized the Unitarian Universalist fellowship dinner for 50 here. We served the main course on china but put out paper plates for cheese and dessert. A couple of French guests refused to eat their dessert on paper “demanding a” proper plate.” Go figure.
Meanwhile, I am writing a feature on David Sedaris for France Magazine, and my forever friend in Savannah Patricia jacobs just made national news for coordinating the Exreme Makeover home project in that beautiful city.
Not bad for two Steel Magnolia Savannah baby boomers.
It is below zero here today, stay warm as we enter the holiday season, Pamela in Paris
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