The Tasmanian-based chef takes us on her journey through France. Chips ahoy!
When you spend three weeks driving 3500 kilometres around France with your boyfriend in a dodgy little two-door Citroen, you need potato chips as much as you need petrol. Luckily, Brets potato chips are sold in petrol stations throughout France – and the flavours change from region to region.] and I pulled in to get petrol, I’d run in and buy a new variety. We held a competition called Chip of the Trip, an award that eventually went to the Fromage de Jura.
Septime has redefined the concept of bistros; chicken with grilled chard and butter sauce at Auberge de Chassignolles.These days, I want my travelling to unfold like that – naturally, with a sense of randomness. So we half-planned, and half-unplanned this trip over several boozy dinners with my Hobart friends Sue Dyson and Roger McShane, whose Living Wines company imports natural wines from France. That said, we started and ended in Paris, which is filled with extraordinary restaurants.
Miznon is a very handy name to have up your sleeve when you have been tramping the streets and canals of Paris for hours. There are three of these Israeli bistros in Paris , and you just order stuffed pita and help yourself to cutlery; it’s very casual. Sometimes I just want to eat a beautiful roasted cauliflower and yellow beans in a bag without paying a fortune for them, and then get back to pounding the pavement.
You sit there at a wooden table, bathed in this incredible light – it feels as if you are dining outside – and the raw vegetables taste as if they have just been pulled from the ground. Which they probably have. You can do a day trip there by train from Paris, although they now have a charming 11-room inn as well. In November, France’s influentialThe dining room at Auberge de Chassignolles, Chassignolles, France.
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