#armagnac au

[sagurus]

it's so funny to me that for all intents and purposes, I should be a member of the target audience for characters like Furuya Rei, Akai Shuuichi, etc, because I'm obsessed with the Black Organization plot and I love to think about characters working against it from the inside. And despite this I feel extremely negatively about both of these characters (for silly meta mad-at-gosho reasons, not because of any issue I actually take with the characters).

But instead my favorite characters to fixate on are in Magic Kaito, and when going by Gosho's word, very far from the Black Organization plot.

And I've noticed that many (though of course not all) MK fans typically are far more invested in the occurrences in MK, or at least prefer the DC plots not to overlap with MK. Meanwhile I am constantly trying to find ways to tie MK closer to the DC plot so I can get them involved in the action.

Anyway I just think it's an amusing position to be in. Also this is 100% why my Armagnac AU is my favoritest AU.

[gunkbaby]

if Shuu was a human what would his top 5 favourite foods be?

ooh good one. This is tricky bc shuu is such a picky eater, but still has this ‘eat the world’ attitude, i think one thing abt human shuu aus rly neglect to compensate for is how closely tied Shuu is to the idea of being an apex predator, but I think you can still achieve it, and I will try my best! i do know a bit abt gourmet food! (There are actually a lot of books abt food critics and gourmet chefs who get 𝕗𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕜𝕪 with cooking)

i feel like is also hard bc shuu would probably like everyone to think his favourite food is something rare and exotic so maybe he would twist the truth a little. Narrowing down specific foods is difficult but I will try my best!

Kaneki’s bussy

Orlotan - this fucked me up when i heard about it. But the practice of eating orlotan is utter decadence - to a ridiculous extent. It’s a bit like Foie Gras - the orlotan are wild caught and force fed to double their mass, then drowned and marinated in Armagnac and then cooked. It’s meant to be consumed whole, the bones spat out, and typically, the consumer is traditionally supposed to wear a napkin or towel over their face whilst they eat the bird. I can’t remember why - but I’ve seen it said that is either to maintain dignity when spitting out the bones, or to shield such a disgraceful act from God’s eyes. The latter sounds cool as fuck so i believe it. I love Jesus!!! I think Shuu would lap something like that up. I’ve yet to find something so dreadfully French in the matter of food, and I think he’d probably say this is his favourite food - if only for the amount of ceremony involved.

Cheesecake - Shuu always mentioning cheesecake in early TG and I would like to give him this one as a little treat. I don’t know a lot abt cheesecake bc i fucking hate the stuff but maybe he’d like something like Basque? Which is just burned custard(?) cheesecake - i was reminded of tiramisu but apparently it’s more of a soufflé. I think he’d probably go for something floral too - rose cheesecake’s probably a thing, lavender, peony. I don’t know if I see him as a sweet/dessert person. He’s more likely to enjoy richer desserts like cheesecake and chocolates.

Dark Chocolate - maybe a sneak! I am a Dark Chocolate Enjoyer so total bias but hear me out (yes i do also like black liquorice!). If it is less than 80% cocoa it’s too sweet! He’d be a 100% kind of guy, because bragging rights. I think he might enjoy it with some fruits, maybe with orange biscuits or raspberries. I think he’d like raspberries, they taste like little rubies to me. Dark chocolate goes good with almond butter, he might make it fancy - foamed raspberry with shredded chocolate over almond biscuits with coffee cream. we might call that a rather bizarre mocha, but shuu would say it’s a deconstructed tiramisu. the reason i think he’d choose dark chocolate is because i don’t think he’d eat sweets. Dark chocolate has a deeper taste profile, in my experience dark chocolate is always unique. This might appeal to Shuu. It goes well with far more flavours than typical chocolate - spices, florals, etc - i recently had dark chocolate almonds dusted in matcha! They were utterly divine. Dark chocolate is highly overrhated in my opinion.

Exotic Meat - this is a generalisation sorry 😢 But I believe it canonical - very premium cuts of meat from animals you might not typically farm - zebra, bear, crocodile, rattlesnake, that sort of thing. It’s really controversial for some reason and as a vegan I should be opposed, but I think wild hunting is leagues better than farming, provided it’s not an endangered species, but Shuu would definitely eat an endangered species. Maybe he likes to brag and his favourite meat is snow leopard, or something. Dodo. Dinosaur, even (he was There).

Fugu (pufferfish) - this is shorthand for ‘dangerous food’ lol! Without the danger of being a ghoul, we have to consider how a human shuu might chase this danger. He might hunt his exotic meats, but I think he might try and achieve this by also eating dangerous food - food that’s poisonous or toxic. a bit of a Russian roulette. I wouldn’t even put it beneath a human or a ghoul Shuu to eat something with worms! (Same tbh. Would.)

i think most of the above are what Shuu might want people to believe are his favourite foods, so I’d like to take some time to throw my other ideas in the ring.

I think he’d take comfort in Monte Cristo - if only because in a human universe, I would take it to be his father’s favourite food. He’d probably be given it as a child or something, so good associations. There’s not much rly to say else there, but the idea of Shuu eating a toastie fascinates me. If he eats it when he’s sad, i think he’d look like that little mouse video, but otherwise I think he’d eat a toastie with a knife & fork.

I mentioned dark chocolate earlier, but of course he might also like some luxury chocolates - i think of these wonderful chocolates i saw once, that had been dyed and marbled to look like planets and marbled, filled with pistachio or coffee foams. Wonderful. Straight from switzerland or italy. Maybe he would enjoy ruby chocolate too? I’ve never had it! I said no sweets but white chocolate has a time and place, but it works wonderfully with wasabi or miso - i made wasabi and white chocolate cupcakes once. Good lord. He would like that. White chocolate and nuts is also very good. When I was vegetarian, my guilty pleasure used to be salted liquorice dipped in white chocolate - but I don’t know if he’d like that!

i think he’d eat sea urchin.

Some drinks too! -

Coffee: specifically coffee with blue seaweed or Kopi Iuwak. He’s definitely tried it, but does he like it? Who knows? I’ve always wanted to try seaweed coffee. Kopi Iuwak is coffee beans that’s already passed through the digestive system of a civet. It sounds like a bit of a farce to me, but i don’t think it’s as repulsive as people make out.

matchaaaa - bias i just think everyone should drink matcha

moon milk - i’ve never had this bc broke but it sounds so good. I think he’d like the pink/rose milk the most! maybe the blue spirulina?

Nut milks - vegan bias but seriously who can honestly argue cow juice tastes better than a refreshing glass of cashew milk??? Shuu would probably have something like pistachio milk, tigernut, brazil nut, macadamia -that sort of thing! Stuff you can’t get from the shops!

People will probably kill me if I don’t mention escargot or frogs legs so. Obligatory mention. Personally I find that to be rather typical and cliched - ooh, mandatory french food! So bizarre! Whatever. Partly why this ask took me a long time to get to, is because I wanted to go through my books and notes. It would have been easy for me to sit here and type that human Shuu would eat lobster and ragyu and live baby shrimp in miso soup, but i think it’s too obvious. In my experience, there is so much more to get out of Shuu when you delve deeper and don’t say the first thing!

i also want to say, sometimes i see how we (westerners) talk about food from different cultures. lots of high-class gourmet stuff seems silly, but i dont care to mock it. i can’t enjoy food anymore, but it makes me happy that some people enjoy food enough to make it a silly and pompous hobby. But i think sometimes we look at frogs legs or zebra steaks, orlotan or fugu, fermented egg, people eating guinea pigs, chihuahua or cat, sometimes we have a tendency to say it’s gross and twisted, but i don’t think that’s necessary. if something tastes good, if an animal has good meat, then why not? eating the world is sometimes a good thing. not always, but sometimes.

This question made me think a lot, so thank you! I was thinking about a human shuu - all the stories you could make up! There’s a lot to sink your teeth into!

I’m sorry if this was incoherent last night i took 40 laxatives and i just drank 2 monster energy back to back I feel very sane!!!!

[plaques-memoire]

Plaque en hommage à : Jeanne d'Arc

Type : Commémoration

Adresse : Château royal de Blois, place du Château, 41000 Blois, France

Date de pose : 1929 [inscrite]

Texte : Jeanne d'Arc arrive à Blois le 25 avril 1429. Elle y organise son armée, fait bénir son étendard en l'église St-Sauveur et part le 27 avril pour délivrer Orléans

Quelques précisions : Jeanne d'Arc (v. 1412-1431) est une héroïne de l'histoire de France, plus tard canonisée par l’Église catholique. Surnommée la Pucelle d'Orléans, elle est une figure majeure de l'histoire de France pour le rôle qu'elle a joué pendant la Guerre de Cent Ans opposant la France et l'Angleterre. Persuadée d'avoir entendu des voix de saints lui demandant de libérer la France de la présence des troupes anglaises, elle parvient à obtenir audience auprès du dauphin Charles VII, qui l'envoie à Orléans, alors assiégée. Sa ferveur et son courage y inspirent les troupes françaises et la ville est finalement libérée au début du mois de mai 1429, faisant de Jeanne d'Arc une héroïne aux yeux de la population. Elle prend part à d'autres campagnes militaires, plus ou moins couronnées de succès, mais finit par être capturée par les Bourguignons (une faction française opposée aux Armagnacs qui soutiennent Charles VII), qui la vendent aux Anglais. Accusée d'hérésie, Jeanne d'Arc est jugée lors d'un procès ecclésiastique, qui la condamne à mort. Jeanne d'Arc périt ainsi sur le bûcher à Rouen en 1431. Elle sera toutefois réhabilitée par la suite et complètement innocentée. Ses actions héroïques et son destin tragique sont à l'origine d'une iconographie très importante, de multiples œuvres artistiques adaptant toute ou partie de sa vie, et donnent également parfois lieu à des théories abracadabrantesques sur sa possible survie au bûcher. D'autres plaques commémoratives en son honneur peuvent être trouvées en France, en particulier à Orléans mais aussi à Tours.

[duxvonzazer]

🔴 Berzé-le-Châtel, un castrum du Xème siècle en Bourgogne

Constitué d’un donjon primitif en bois et d’une chapelle carolingienne en pierre, le castrum de Berzé est attesté dans un cartulaire de Cluny datant de l’année 991, en faisant la plus ancienne baronnie du Mâconnais.

Intégré au réseau de défense de l’abbaye de Cluny dès le Xème siècle, le château prend une importance considérable au XIIIème siècle. En 1229, le sire Hugues de Berzé bénéficie d’un prêt de l’abbaye lui permettant de transformer le château en place forte. Berzé devient ainsi en l’espace de quelques années la plus grande forteresse militaire de Bourgogne du Sud, principal château de défense de l’abbaye. Cluny est alors à son apogée et accueille près de mille moines à l’année.

Au cours de la guerre de Cent ans, le château devient un enjeu disputé et convoité entre les Armagnacs et les Bourguignons. Donné aux Bourguignons en 1417, il est pris par les Armagnacs en 1420 lors de leur attaque du Mâconnais. Après quatre ans d’occupation, il est finalement repris par Philippe le Bon grâce à la présence d’un tunnel souterrain reliant le château à une tour de garde située sur une colline voisine. En 1471, il est à nouveau la cible d’une attaque royale, celle de Louis XI, cette fois infructueuse.

Durant la renaissance, le rôle militaire de la forteresse devient plus secondaire, cette dernière se trouvant pourtant au cœur du conflit déchirant alors le royaume : la guerre des ligues. Catholiques et protestants s’affrontent à travers des escarmouches mettant le pays à feu et à sang. Le duc de Nevers à la tête de la ligue catholique porte un assaut considérable en 1591. Forte de 1100 hommes, 100 chevaux et d’une série de canons portatifs, l’armée du duc vient à bout des défenses de la forteresse qui cède après deux mois de siège.

Après l’attaque de la ligue et l’expulsion de ses propriétaires, le château est laiss�� à l’abandon pendant près de deux siècles. Lieu de pâturage pour le bétail durant la révolution française, il est malgré quelques dégradations relativement épargné par les vagues de destructions révolutionnaires. Déclaré tout comme l’abbaye de Cluny bien national, il entre dans la propriété de l’Etat mais n’est pas réinvesti. Le château subit alors les affres du temps…

En 1817, les descendants des anciens propriétaires rachètent le château, celui-ci redevenant alors un bien privé. Ayant subi de nombreuses dégradations de par son inoccupation prolongée, le château nécessite alors de nombreuses restaurations : charpentes, toitures et planchers doivent être rénovés afin d’assurer la sécurité du lieu. La famille Thy de Milly agrandit peu à peu les fenêtres, rénove le logis seigneurial et entretient les jardins, permettant bien des années plus tard de l’ouvrir au public afin de partager et donner à voir ce monument remarquable du patrimoine.

[1pied-devant-l-autre]

J 3 -2023

Phrase du jour : La vie m'a dit "écoute les mots que je te souffle".

Prends toi en main plutôt qu'appeller au secours.

Ancres toi dans le présent et son mouvement.

Apprends à donner vraiment sans rien attendre en retour.

Après une grosse étape d'hier (25km), départ pour Manciet et Nogaro dans la brume matinale .

Parcours vallonné dans la campagne Gersoise, nous avons traversé plusieurs paysages, multicolores, maïs, blé,  tournesols,  fèves et vignes à perte de vue.

Nous découvrons  les étangs de Pouy (aquaculture ) et la ville de Manciet avec ses arènes traditionnelles.

Arrêt ravitaillement, pour le pique nique du midi et dégustation des boissons locales (Armagnac, floc.... non pas à cette heure !!!) Plutôt café !

Le parcours jusqu'à Nogaro fut sans difficultés, pour une arrivée au Gite communal dans l'après midi 17 kms.

Après une préparation musculaire pour une étape longue vers Barcelonne sur Gers de demain, nous avons fait un  repas  typique gersois, avec cocktail local...

[fondsinformation]

EU-Strafzölle auf chinesische E-Autos

Strafzölle der Europäische Union auf chinesische E-Autos verschärfen den Handelskrieg mit China. Wem nützt das? EU-Strafzölle - ein Schuss ins eigene Knie? In der EU ist man noch immer nicht bereit, die selbstzerstörerische Sanktionspolitik an den Nagel zu hängen. Ein jüngstes Beispiel sind die EU-Strafzölle auf chinesische E-Autos, über die beispielsweise der Deutschlandfunk am 04. 10. 2024 berichtete: "Die USA haben bereits Zölle auf verschiedene chinesische Produkte erhöht; die Importzölle auf Elektroautos sogar auf etwa 100 Prozent. Auch der Handelskonflikt zwischen der Europäischen Union und China beschränkt sich nicht nur auf E-Autos. Bereiche wie die Stahlindustrie oder die Medizintechnik sind ebenfalls betroffen." Als Antwort verhängte China eine Woche später Einfuhrzölle zwischen 30 und 39 Prozent auf Spirituosen aus der EU, die aus der Destillation von Traubenwein gewonnen werden – Cognac, Armagnac, Grappa. Das dürfte vor allem die französischen Winzer treffen, denn 99 Prozent der Branntweineineinfuhren nach China kamen im vergangenen Jahr aus Frankreich. Chinas Brain Drain führt zur Flucht aus den USA Wohin die Zerstörung der Wirtschaftsbeziehungen führen kann, verdeutlicht unter anderem das nachfolgende Video von Kevin Walmsley, einem US-Amerikaner, der seit mehr als 10 Jahren in China lebt. Es deutet an, wer wen wirtschaftlich braucht: China die USA und Europa oder umgekehrt. Hier einige Argumente aus seinem Bericht: Zunehmend kündigen Chinesische Spitzenwissenschaftler in US-Unternehmen und Universitäten ihre Stellen und kehren nach China zurück. Nach Angaben des Wall Street Journal erwägen auch 40 % der chinesischstämmigen Lehrkräfte eine Rückkehr. Die USA hätten auch ihren Reiz für chinesische Studenten verloren. Sie studieren mittlerweile eher in China als in den USA, denn - sind chinesische Universitäten mittlerweile in der Weltspitzenliga angekommen, - ist es weitaus günstiger als in den USA. Damit gingen den US-Spitzenuniversitäten erhebliche Studiengebühren verloren. Einerseits hätten die antichinesische Politik und der Rassismus in den USA dazu geführt, dass sich viele chinesische Wissenschaftler in den USA einfach "nicht mehr wohl" fühlten. Andererseits könnten sie in China mittlerweile auch mehr Geld verdienen als in den USA. Selbst Top-Führungskräfte von Microsoft haben das Unternehmen verlassen, um in China ein neues KI-Unternehmen zu gründen. "Die Exportverbote für die schnellsten und leistungsstärksten Chips sollen chinesischen Unternehmen den Zugang zu diesen Chips verwehren und sie so von der Entwicklung von KI-Spitzentechnologien abhalten. (Drei chinesische) Spitzenkräfte von Microsoft haben MSFT jedoch verlassen, um ein KI-Unternehmen in Shanghai zu gründen." Sie hätten entgegen allen US-Behauptungen in China Zugang zu den besten Chips für KI-Anwendungen. Übrigens gibt es ein ähnliche Entwicklung bie zahlreichen russischen Spezialisten, die insbesondere auch nach Beginn der speziellen Militäroperation in der Ukraine Russland verließen ... und jetzt nach Russland zurückkommen. Glaubt jemand, dass die Strafzölle China einschüchtern wird? "Der Verband der Automobilindustrie warnt vor negativen Auswirkungen von Strafzöllen. Dies sei 'ein weiterer Schritt weg von globaler Zusammenarbeit', betont VDA-Präsidentin Hildegard Müller. Der potenzielle Schaden sei höher als der Nutzen des Instruments: 'Drei von vier deutschen Autos gehen in den Export', erklärt die Lobbyistin. 'Wir befürchten Rückstoßeffekte, die den Zugang zum chinesischen Markt erschweren, den wir für den Hochlauf von Elektromobilität brauchen.'"     Lesen Sie den ganzen Artikel

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Dernière semaine d'exposition "PAYSAGES" au Château de MONS en Armagnac (Gers-Caussens) !! Marie-Hélène Carcanague artiste et Rob van Veggel Peinture.

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Du coup comment ça marche?

1 paquet de 8 à 10 feuilles de pâte filo,

5 pommes, armagnac, sucre en poudre, eau de fleur d'oranger, beurre.

Allumer le four à 180°

Éplucher les pommes, puis les couper en tranches pas trop fines.

Les faire revenir dans une poêle avec du beurre. Elles doivent être fondantes mais pas trop car elles finiront leur dinguerie de "confitude" au four.

Pendant ce temps faire fondre 40g de beurre.

Remuer les pommes de temps à autre, les saupoudrer de sucre en poudre, arroser de deux cuillères à soupe d'eau de fleur d'oranger, de quatre d'armagnac, mélanger doucement le tout. Réserver.

Poser dans le fond d'un moule à tarte deux feuilles de pâte filo,

en les laissant bien déborder autour. Les badigeonner au pinceau de beurre fondu.

Ajouter encore deux feuilles de pâte qu'il faut poser dans l'autre sens pour combler le vide extérieur, puis même opération avec le beurre fondu.

Puis encore deux autre feuilles en changeant of course de sens de pose, afin que la pâte déborde de tous les côtés. (vous avez donc utiliser 6 feuilles)

Verser les pommes, les étaler doucement afin de ne pas déchirer la pâte. Poser une à une les autres feuilles en les chiffonnant en douceur sur le dessus. Découper aux ciseaux ce qui déborde qui déborde et s'en servir pour boucher les trous en la chiffonnant doucement. (ne pas utiliser les chutes trop petites qui sèchent trop à la cuisson).

Passer le beurre fondu restant au pinceau toujours avec douceur pour ne pas écraser ta pâte et saupoudrer de sucre.

Enfourner pour 15 à 20mn tout en surveillant la cuisson qui peut très vite partir en vrille...

Voilà!

[epicerie-blanot]

Armagnac AOC arrangé noisettes et miel

Armagnac AOC arrangé aux noisettes et au miel Armagnac AOC arrangé 70cl  32%vol Réalisé avec des spiritueux 100 % Bio au cœur du Gers. Notre Armagnac, rond et généreux, est vieilli en fût de chêne de Gascogne. La gourmandise de la noisette torréfiée et la douceur du miel d’acacia apporteront des notes pralinées à votre palais. L’abus d’alcool est dangereux pour la santé et doit être consommé avec…

[plaques-memoire]

Plaque en hommage à : Jeanne d'Arc

Type : Lieu de résidence

Adresse : Maison de Jeanne d'Arc, 3 place du Général de Gaulle, 45000 Orléans, France

Date de pose : Inconnue

Texte : Dans cette maison reconstituée en 1965, Jeanne d'Arc a été l'hôte de Jacques Boucher, trésorier du duc d'Orléans du 29 avril au 9 mai 1429

Quelques précisions : Jeanne d'Arc (v. 1412-1431) est une héroïne de l'histoire de France, plus tard canonisée par l’Église catholique. Surnommée la Pucelle d'Orléans, elle est une figure majeure de l'histoire de France pour le rôle qu'elle a joué pendant la Guerre de Cent Ans opposant la France et l'Angleterre. Persuadée d'avoir entendu des voix de saints lui demandant de libérer la France de la présence des troupes anglaises, elle parvient à obtenir audience auprès du dauphin Charles VII, qui l'envoie à Orléans, alors assiégée. Sa ferveur et son courage y inspirent les troupes françaises et la ville est finalement libérée au début du mois de mai 1429, faisant d'elle une héroïne aux yeux de la population. Elle prend part à d'autres campagnes militaires, plus ou moins couronnées de succès, mais finit par être capturée par les Bourguignons (une faction française opposée aux Armagnacs qui soutiennent Charles VII), qui la vendent aux Anglais. Accusée d'hérésie, elle est jugée lors d'un procès ecclésiastique, qui la condamne à mort. Elle périt ainsi sur le bûcher à Rouen en 1431. Elle sera toutefois réhabilitée par la suite et complètement innocentée. Ses actions héroïques et son destin tragique sont à l'origine d'une iconographie très importante, de multiples œuvres artistiques adaptant toute ou partie de sa vie, et donnent également parfois lieu à des théories abracadabrantesques sur sa possible survie au bûcher. D'autres plaques commémoratives en son honneur peuvent être trouvées en France, par exemple à Tours et à Blois.

[tdjrwc2023]

68. J50 : Dîtes 24 !

Il était temps, nous étions en train de bégayer notre rugby avec trop de RTR. We're back. Le Midol téléchargé, café-viennoiseries dans le train, repos-méditation-concentration dans le silence tout relatif d'un Ouigo, @DirComm pianote quelques idées pour le boulot, @DocMidol (qui sera rebaptisé à son corps défendant dès dimanche matin) dort, @FilsdeDocMidol écoute de la musique les yeux clos. Nous ne sommes que 4 pour la finale à Saint-Denis mais avec le soutien inconditionnel des autres TDJ2023 restés à quai pour obligations personnelles.

Poitiers, 2 minutes d'arrêt. Des enfants chouinent ou pleurent. La pluie menace mais le soleil est tenace. Paris en vue, train à l'heure mais le 91 si rapide habituellement a été long, très long.

Repas "normal" au pied de l'appartement avec clients SudAfs en famille et en terrasse. Ce fut l'occasion pour @DirComm d'assurer sa bonne action du jour pour une belle surprise : filmer l'instant où le fils offre à sa famille 5 billets pour la finale de demain et un magnum de champagne. Émotion garantie, embrassades, larmichettes sur certaines joues, etc. Des SudAfs sympathiques, surpris et aux anges !

Peu d'ambiance dans le stade. Les traditionnels chants anglais étaient aux abonnés absents. Les "allez les Bleus" encourageaient l'équipe argentine.

La seconde mi-temps a réchauffé nos cœurs et le stade qui avait pris parti depuis longtemps pour les Sud-Américains s'est un peu emballé. Le score serré de la fin de match l'a rendue palpitante. Les Anglais ont gagné et se parent de bronze. Bravo Los Pumas !

23h18 : RER D

23h45 : Armagnac

0h45 : Dodo

Demain sera une autre histoire.

[yessadirichards]

Cannes critics drool over French 'food porn' love story

CANNES

The kitchen of a 19th-century French chateau is home to an endless gastronomic feast in "The Pot-au-Feu", an ode to food with a simmering love story at its heart which left Cannes critics drooling.

The film by Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung, which premiered at the festival late Wednesday, stars former real-life lovers Juliette Binoche and Benoit Magimel in the roles of cook and gourmand aristocrat.

Their romance slowly unfolds in the background of clanging pans, sizzling veal and poaching fish as complex sauces meld together.

"I really wanted to make a very French movie," said Tran at a press conference Thursday at the French Riviera film festival, which draws to a close on Saturday.

"What cannot be said out loud is said through food," he said of the love story between the two main characters.

There is virtually no music in the film, with only the sounds of nature, the kitchen, and the pleasurable groans of those eating the food to accompany the dialogue.

In one scene, the aristocrat and his gourmet friends partake of the now-banned dish of ortolan -- a rare songbird drowned in Armagnac and eaten whole while the diner's head is draped with a napkin.

The title "Pot-au-Feu" refers to the French stew-like dish of boiled meat and vegetables, which also gets a starring role in the plot.

"Food is the subject, the objective and the driving motor of this scantly plotted but utterly captivating love story," said Variety.

The Telegraph said the film was "so vividly and lovingly made, you'll swear you can smell and taste every shot."

Several critics noted the stark difference between the gluttonous film and another entry in the main Cannes competition, "Club Zero", which days earlier had teens starving themselves in a movie set around a nutrition cult.

While English-language critics loved "Pot-au-Feu", their French counterparts -- perhaps less awed by their own gastronomy -- were "left hungry," as Le Figaro wrote in its review.

The movie's food scenes were directed by multi-Michelin-starred chef Pierre Gagnaire, who also makes a brief appearance in the film.

All the food seen in the movie was real, with no props used, and Gagnaire and an assistant prepared mountains of food during filming, while the actors did plenty of their own cooking -- for which they received some training.

"This film perfectly replicates what food is, creativity, emotion, but also rigor, attention, silence, listening to the products," said Gagnaire.

He only had one note for the team: When Binoche's character pulled a poaching turbot out of the oven in one scene "you could see the milk was not hot enough

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[1pied-devant-l-autre]

J 2 - 2023

Phrase du jour :

Accroche toi à ce qui est bon, même si c'est une poignée de terre.

Accroche toi  à ce que tu crois, même si c'est un arbre solitaire .

Accroche toi à ce que tu dois faire, même si c'est pour partir loin d'ici.

Vas, vis et devient libre .

Départ de Montréal du Gers de bonne heure, la ville dors .

Le chemin utilise le tracé d'une ancienne ligne de chemin de fer de Condom à Nogaro. L'endroit est bien ombragé. 

Entre deux parcelles de vigne, dans la  "Petite Maisonnette" le petit Peco nous accueille pour une pause café,  thé qu'il avait lui même préparée, un donativo (offrande du pelerin, participation libre) bien apprécié.

Arrivée sur Eauze, pour la pause de midi.

Au milieu des demeures à colombage, la Cathédrale Saint-Luperc se dresse .

En fin du parcours vers le gîte, nous traversons les vignes qui font la renommée de la région : Tariquet, Armagnac, et Floc Gascon.

Arrivée au gîte Gai Riquet , accuelli gentiment par Fabienne pour un repas pèlerin bien mérité. 

Pour fêter les mamans  apéritif au floc Gascon .

[mimsiical]

dcmk secret santa: black org!saguru

hi @sagurus, i was your dcmk secret santa this year! here is the playlist i made for your black org!saguru. (playlist icon included at link.)

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annotated playlist under the cut. i used the names saguru and armagnac for him interchangeably.

1. scared of the dark (feat. XXXTENTACION) -- lil wayne, ty dolla $ign

okay so, this song is obviously from spiderman: into the spiderverse and it is probably my favorite track from that movie. there is something so intensely sorrowful about this song. there’s no choice offered by this song; there’s no room fear. also -- i don’t think armagnac fears death. i think he considers it more or less inevitable, as he doesn’t find there to be much chance of him succeeding.

so: he can’t be afraid. he embraces his choice, and he lives with what it leaves him with. darkness is his only comfort... at least until kaito comes along.

2. five years -- david bowie

i always considered this song something of a grief-stricken love letter to humanity. there’s a couple layers here. first -- the sense of being an onlooker, an outsider looking through the windows at the complex beauty of people. the narrator of the song is literally a space alien; he sees all of this knowing he isn’t truly a part of it.

secondly -- i never thought i’d need so many people -- that’s 100% for armagnac thinking he could suffer alone and then die alone, and instead ending up with his plans ruined because people love him now. the song’s narrator is also tugged at by pained longing for one specific person, and so is armagnac.

3. joke’s on you -- charlotte lawrence

this song is posed as a bad breakup song, and i have a whole thing for conflicts being portrayed through breakup songs because it’s just delightful fun (see: hamilton and the war being shown thru the king singing his heinous perspective as if it was a breakup). so, this is a song for armagnac and the black org.

my heart's gone bad, now it won't beat for you / you had your laugh, now i won't play the fool [...] baby, if i had to choose? the joke’s on you.

4. hurt -- johnny cash

oof, when i think about guilt and the marrow-deep feeling of being a bad person who ruins even the kindest and gentlest of things, this is the song i think about. guilt and regret and grief and a dose of hopelessness for good measure. while kaito knows who armagnac is and what he’s done in your au, it’s always been my impression that armagnac has the sense of being a bad, broken person entrenched in him.

basically -- he’s an essentially good person who has been forced to do awful things, and that takes a long, long time to untangle and recover from. poor broken-hearted boy. he has a lot of damage, and he doesn’t feel great about dragging kaito deeper into his mess, regardless of kaito’s willingness.

5. bury a friend -- billie eilish

what do you want from me? / why don't you run from me? / what are you wondering? / what do you know? / why aren't you scared of me? / why do you care for me?

for saguru and kaito...

my limbs all froze and my eyes won't close [...] when we all fall asleep, where do we go?

...and for armagnac and sherry.

6. mercy -- tv on the radio

this one is all for saguru. basically every line of it, lol. i tried relistening for a specific line and just -- all of them. but especially have mercy, love. kaito has a damaged fragile heart cupped in his hands.

7. tessellate -- ellie goulding

just a good sexy tune for having a dangerous lover.

8. little black submarines -- the black keys

mournful and melancholy but also goes so hard. i have seen this song performed in concert and the energy when the electric guitar comes in was incredible and intense as hell. this one is less for specific lyrics and more for the vibes of the yearning and intensity and grief and ENERGY. an unstoppable force, slowed but not halted. love it.

9. shark -- oh wonder

a song that’s all for sagukai, because they deserve to love and they deserve to be loved.

10. howlin’ for you -- the black keys

i think what i like best about this song is the implicit story about what kind of person the narrator is. not at all domesticated, not at all safe -- for everyone else, because the subject of the song could have them begging for scraps of attention. of course, kaito is affectionate to saguru (eventually), but there’s fun to be had in thinking about how kaito has a hold on saguru that neither of them ever could have anticipated.

11. put your money on me -- arcade fire

this song’s also here more for the vibes than the lyrics. fuck the odds -- i will win or die trying, you know?

12. what the water gave me -- florence + the machine

ah, this one. the big inspiration for it is virginia woolf’s suicide. i like the line about atlas -- oh poor atlas was a beast and a burden / you’ve been holding on a long time -- because oof, he sure has, and -- all this longing, and the ships are left to rust -- oh, he’s so alone that my heart could just crack in two.

and... i’m sure saguru’s had some very, very bad days. he’s starved for love, sure, but he hasn’t known security or safety, either. he’s baby.

13. secrets and lies -- ruelle

this one’s for kaito’s experience of saguru. all the grief and sorrow alongside the love and compassion.

14. queen of peace -- florence + the machine

never going to be able to break the association between this song and a good man who has been forced by love and circumstance to become a cold and ruthless strategist.

oh, what is it worth / when all that’s left is hurt?

15. stay alive --- josé gonzáles

one final song: a dream of comfort, safety, and healing. they���ll get there someday, no matter how impossible it feels. also, i like that it has vaguely mechanical and timepiece descriptions for presumably obvious reasons.

do whatever just to stay alive, of course, for armagnac, but dawn is coming, open your eyes, for the both of them.

[biaswreckmepls]

Armagnac

AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/18201578

Author: jimintrigue (Untested_Waters)

Rating: Explicit

Relationships: Jeon Jungkook/Park Jimin

Status: Completed

Chapters: 1/1 (13074 words)

Tags: Vampire AU

Summary:

Jeongguk really prefers to drink from his personal stock, but sometimes, it just can't be helped. And when he meets Park Jimin, bartender at bloodpub Holy Knight, well, maybe his preference will suddenly change.

Jimin is someone who doesn't know much about vampires, but when he meets Jeon Jeongguk, he might find himself agreeing to interacting with the vampire's life much more than he had ever intended.

{or, Jimin works in a bloodpub but has never had someone drink his blood. however, he's more than willing to let Jeongguk be his first}

AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/18201578