will eat food for outdoor men and
it must be, one likes to think, very
like the rustic cooking of the
Romans.
‘The kitchen is in the hall and
you can eat with an eye upon the
spits and sizzling pots. That’s the
way to enjoy a meal, but, luckily, I
have run across nowhere in France
that peculiarly Iberian combination
that used not to be rare in Spain:
stable, kitchen, bedroom and
dining-room all in one – that’s very
Low Latin indeed.
‘Maybe the main dish will be
lièvre à la royale. There are plenty
of thyme and herbs and long runs