About food, culture and the Eiffel Tower…
Food is really something you grow up with. You do not suddenly develop a taste for snails or avocado at the age of forty. You gradually start eating those “strange” foods while you are a toddler because your mother constantly asks you to try at least one bite. I remember giving my daughter Isabelle a coffee spoon of avocado and she did not really like it; but she did not gag, so it was OK. My mother used to say that if they gag, you have to stop making them eat; but if they do not like it, then you can try again the next time. To make a long story short, Isabelle now loves avocado, and other “strange” Southeast Asian foods. I originally come from Laos from a Colonial French family and I was raised to be French, but unfortunately, and to my mother’s dismay, I am very American. Nevertheless I am an American with an intensive background in cultures and culinary. I gave my grandchildren escargots, mussels, crabs (all kind of seafood), different ve...