Park & Suites Ëlegance la Ciotat, La Ciotat, France, March 18, 2012—
WHATEVER THE COUNTRY, there are the favorite dishes. Netherlands : herring, pannekoek, boerenkool… Rome: carbonara, caccio e pepe, carciofi… jamon in Spain, y judias…
We're finally in vrai Provence, and I finally have my fish soup. You jab a fork into a peeled clove of raw garlic, and drag it back and forth across the toasted slices of baguette. Then you heap spoonfuls of rouille on each slice — cayenne-charged mayonnaise — and put them on the bottom of your otherwise empty soup-plate.
The soup itself comes next: by preference at least three kinds of fish, local and fresh of course, cooked up with various flavorings important among which is fennel, then the bouillon strained off, the solids put through a sieve (or a food mill) and restored to the soup.
Then grated cheese, Gruyère is best, strewn on top, and then, my God, let's eat.
Afterward a nice green salad, and then a good night's sleep. Delicious. Maybe tomorrow we'll do it all again.
Vin blanc en pichet
•Restaurant Pizzerie la Grotte, Port Vieux, La Ciotat; +33 04 42 08 64 19
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