After slowly roasting in the browned butter of the sun I finally managed to get into a
pistachio bus which was crawling with customers as an overripe cheese crawls with
maggots. Having paid my fare, I noticed among all these noodles a poor fish with a
neck as long as a stick of celery and a loaf surmounted by a ridiculous donkey's
dinner. This unsavoury character started to beef because a chap was pounding the
joints of his cheeses to pulp. But when he found that he had bitten off more than he
could chew, he quailed like a lily-livered dunghill-cock and bolted off to stew in his
own juice. I was digesting my lunch going back to the bus when I saw this half-baked individual in front of the buffet of the gare Saint-Lazare with a chap of his own kidney who was giving him the fruit of his experience on the subject of garnishing his coating, with particular reference to a cheese plate.

astronomical

Cooking with
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