Wednesday, 20 March 2013

9th July 2010 – A Taste for Revenge




I was looking forward to eating my attacker the next day, so was disappointed to learn that poultry needed to rest for a few days before being eaten: a couple of hours after slaughter, rigor mortis would set in, making the flesh temporarily tough and stringy. Revenge is sweet, so the saying goes, although I was sure that in this case it would taste of chicken. But I would have to leave that experience to Juan. I was no longer aware of the all-enveloping scent of artisan comté, and I was feeling comfortable in my strange, semi-servile role, but after one final day of infusing, watering, berry-cropping, swimming and walnut tarts from Anne-Marie’s favourite bakery, it was time for me to move on.

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