{"id":618,"date":"2018-01-08T12:11:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T12:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wordpress\/?p=618"},"modified":"2018-01-08T12:11:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T12:11:19","slug":"sunday-lunch-le-dejeuner-de-dimanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/?p=618","title":{"rendered":"Sunday lunch – le d\u00e9jeuner de dimanche"},"content":{"rendered":"

Le d\u00e9jeuner de dimanche<\/p>\n

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Sunday lunch, \u00a0January 7 chez nous – \u00a0or “are we really eating all this holiday food again?”. Answer: yes. David, our writer son, and his family couldn’t make it for Christmas so we made up for it \u00a0with a late celebration and a sighting of Santa Claus (who made a special trip from the North Pole bearing loads of gifts.)<\/p>\n

The picture above is of the \u00a0table with no one at it and before it became a total mess. On the menu: foie gras accompanied by Loupiac (sweet white wine, delicious), a tender pork fillet (filet mignon de port) and gratin dauphinois accompanied by a nice bottle of Julienas, a cheese plate with Munster and Reblochon and a galette des Rois.<\/p>\n

The fellow in the background is a (formerly painted) wooden 16th century statue of Saint Anthony of Egypt. I remember the first time I saw this saint at my in-law’s apartment in Paris.To say I was intrigued is an understatement. \u00a0I don’t know much about saints and didn’t know which St. Anthony it was, and the first thing I learned about him was who he was not.<\/p>\n

“Our” saint is not \u00a0St. Anthony of Padua, the patron saint of lost items. \u00a0He was born in Egypt in about 213 A.D., spent his entire life engaged in a struggle with the Devil and was the founder of Christian monasticism. His popularity reached its height in the Middle Ages; the black-robed Order of Hospitallers in Grenoble (France) \u00a0were a familiar sight as they went around collecting alms and were known by their bells and their pigs, which were given a special privilege to run free in the streets. You can’t see it in the photo but there is indeed a bell – and a pig at St. Anthony’s feet.<\/p>\n

After Philippe’s parents died, we inherited the saint and he has been in our place ever since. I can’t even imagine what it was like when he wasn’t here.\u00a0One day, though, I decided he looked sad. Then it occurred to me that when he was hanging on the walls of a church people looked at him from below. So I got down on my knees to see what they saw. His expression was totally different – contemplative but certainly not so sad!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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