Some of my favorite foods

Of this I already had three times on this trip and I can't get enough. My dad made it every summer when I was a child, and back in the US, when I was thinking of coming here, this is what I was fantasizing about: grilled mackerel.

They come from the fish market in the morning, fresh, line caught and never kept on ice. You can press them with coarse salt and herbs ahead of time:

Once you got your fire just right they can go on the grill:

And after a few minutes...voilà:

Eat them with potatoes in the skin with a lot of butter, and some dry white wine - it's a feast!

Thoughts on French food and politics

In France right now, where I will be for the next month. I'm slowly getting situated, and the jetlag is not too bad this time around. It was very hot until yesterday, and got a little cooler and overcast today. The food is amazing as expected...yesterday I had lunch in a nice organic, local produce only restaurant with my sister-in-law. Right in the middle of the town, facing an old church, and with a funny slogan:

(nourriture et vin non issus de la pensée unique)

Interesting to see a kind of politics I'm used to see in the Bay Area at work here too. Lots of flyers in the bathroom, with another quote, from Hippocrates (along the lines of 'let food be your medicine'). Meanwhile the police came slowly driving or  strolling by at least 3 times (we had a long lunch, but still...)- a lot of them everywhere it seems. I even saw soldiers with machine guns in the Montparnasse train station, standing guard at either side of the main stairs...


Meanwhile, what I've come to call the Deer Convention Vinyl Project had a glorious start! 
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