Re: Tubies, just for info

In article <471271c5$0$26420$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Sandy" <leurrre@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Dans le message de
news:tedbennett-191D1A.12105914102007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
, Ted Bennett <tedbennett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a réfléchi, et puis a
déclaré :
Michael Press <rubrum@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ted Bennett <tedbennett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Non, bien sur. That's the dealbreaker for me in that
application. Hey, that reminds me. Where's Sandy, our resident
French lawyer?

He has hinted that he wants to shift from law to cookery. Also had
a medical procedure scheduled for his eye.

That is of interest to me, professionally.

Sandy, do you care to reveal any details?

Sure

Finding food that is edible is a tough road. Almost everything is
pre-processed. I looked in the rice aisle at a couple of
supermarkets. While in France, one has choices of many types, not to
mention brands, of rice, here the choices of plain food are very few,
while the ones with added flavors, ready-to-serve, are vast.

Bummer. I have at least a dozen types of rice to choose from at the
natural foods cooperative where I shop. Long grain, short grain,
arborio, jasmine, basmati, sticky rice, "black" rice, brown rices,
organic versus conventional, etc. And a wonderful selections of fruits
and vegetables with an emphasis on seasonal locally-grown produce,
locally produced organic free-range meats and poultry and grass-fed beef
products.

In another post you mentioned you are in Maine. My advice is to get
acquainted natural foods store/cooperative if there is one in your area.
Plain foods, whole foods, unmessed-with foods are more readily available
there. I've never been to Maine which is a big state, but the Web
offers a few possibilities:

http://www.coopdirectory.org/directory.htm#Maine

http://www.crownofmainecoop.com/retailers.asp

If you're going to be there long term, it might be worthwhile to join a
CSA:

http://www.getrealgetmaine.com/buy/csa_farms.html

The "Edible Coastal Maine" magazine might be helpful in finding some
resources.

http://www.ediblecoastalmaine.com/

Wine is abominable to look for. Prices for imports are about 4-5
times European prices, and I tried a couple of nonEuro wines at
relatively high prices, and they don't serve even for cooking.

When in France I found that the 3 Euro bottle of vin ordinaire was as
good or better than $8-10 bottles here in the US. Don't even get me
started on American wines, as most taste like alcoholic grape juice with
oak flavor added. There are some exceptions, but by and large I buy
French wines (Cotes du Rhones being my favorites). OTOH the
availability of good beer has improved dramatically in the US.

But seafood here is abundant and fresh. I can't figure out why there
isn't any aquaculture going on. No oysters, clams, mussels, it
seems, unless found wild.

You're currently in Maine? Excellent quality seafood is easy to get
there.

Group riding is interesting. While I am used to a leisurely 30-40
minute warm-up, the down-to-business attitude here is 10 minutes and
blast-off.

Tire prices - good thing I found a bunch of cheap deals in Europe.
Here they would be scandalously lowball.

I bought a 700 x 28 Michelin Tracer on the Col de Vars for $12 ($1 = 1
Euro on those halcyon days). At the time I think the going price here
was $20.

Can't yet figure out whether bearnaise is good for rubber.

If filleted and presented rare.
.

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