A Book of Mediterranean Food

off to consult his friend Spüller,
who ran a well-known restaurant
in the Rue Favart, to arrange the
preparation and cooking of his
hare for the following day. The
dish takes from noon until 7 o’clock
to prepare and cook, and Senator
Couteaux tells how by 6 o’clock the
exquisite aroma had penetrated the
doors of Spüller’s restaurant,
floated down the street and out
into the boulevard, where the
passers-by sniffed the scented air;
an excitable crowd gathered, and
the whole quartier was ‘mis en
émoi’. If you ever feel like devoting
the time (perhaps you need not