butter and lemons

In Ex Libris the writer Anne Fadiman discusses the whole "You are there" aspect of books. The experience of reading a book in the place where the book is supposed to take place or is about. Examples cited are reading Livy at Thrasymenus, Steinbeck in Monterey, Eloise at the Plaza. It is a rather romantic experience.
Similar to that is to culinary approach to "you are there". I have made omelettes late at night in a flat in Paris, cooked pasta and pesto in a tiny kitchen in the Cinque Terre, (we dined out on the deck overlooking the village) and dug and eaten clams here in the Northwest.

Here are four other food-inspired adventures a person could try out. Nothing like a proper fantasy.

I think tonight I will make French Onion soup. I should use the rest of the aioli with a salad or maybe scrambled eggs. Delicate scrambled eggs with a bit of parsley and aioli and good wine.

I am craving lox and caviar. Blinis... I should make blinis.

Enough fantasy. Time to fold some laundry.