Tuesday, March 02, 2004

Two of my students regaled me with tales of huge rabbits at the Parisian Ag Expo, and since Emma likes rabbits and we like ag expos and the weekly what's happening around town magazine featured it and the wealth of rich regional foods we decided to go. On a Tuesday morning. With, apparently, the rest of Paris. I still can't get over the throngs of humanity that were crowded into the spatious halls of the ag expo. I suppose if I had been by myself it would have been really interesting, but with two children, a wife, and a stroller, I just found the throngs opressive. There were supposed to be foods from all of the regions of France, which we were looking forward to seeing. Apparently, the rest of France enjoys either pate de fois gras with wine or sauerkraut and beer. Oh, wait we did see a raclette cheese fondue pavillion. (Fascinating process that, take a 60 cm wheel of raclette cheese, cut it in half and place the open slab next to an electric heating element until the cheese melts and runs down onto a plate, from which you scoop it up and eat it with bread). We did see the cows and sheep and mules and perhaps most of Paris, but we never did find the rabbits.