Today I have a very interesting pop-up book. If one collects pop-ups, as my mother did, and I continue to, then this book would be a wonderful addition.
The book is called “Trail” by David Pelham, 2007. It is an all white pop-up book, with a silver trail going around, and a poem dial, on each page. The last page is very special as it explains the trail, in a pond reflection. You see a small brown snail peeking out, on the underside of a leaf. It is a very beautiful book.
My next book is “The Secret World of Slugs and Snails” by David George Gordon, 2010. It begins with the basics of slugs and snails, and then more details of their lives, anatomy, and senses. It also is quite a book to read.
My next book should give away the holiday, so I will now announce it.
May 24th is National Escargot Day.
The Book “So You’re Going to Paris…” by Clara E.Laughlin 1925, gives travel tips of where to go. On Rue Montorgueil, she recommends the restaurant L’Escargot Number 38 for the best place in Paris to eat snails. The place is still there today, but is frightfully expensive.
So knowing the above information, this group of three couples were roaming through Montmartre, looking for a restaurant to call out our name and invite us inside. We came to-memory is a little hazy-but believe ‘Chez Robert’ did appear before us. We went in, and it was a charming old world, little place. Wood everywhere, not run down but elegantly well used. With a little trepidation, several of us ordered Escargot.
After a plate of escargot, ( a shell holder is still on the plate) the wives went wild. (One of them still owns those empty shells, brought home in a plastic bag.) Perhaps there was also a little wine consumed that evening.
I wish to point out one last book, “Lewd Food, The Complete Guide to Aphrodisiac Edibles” by Robert Hendrickson, 1974. There are three pages about eating snails, one quote that “seven hundred million Frenchman cannot be wrong about eating snails…devouring about three million pounds of escargot from March to October each year.” Another quote “Snails have not only been prized as a love food. The Romans long ago served them at the end of their sumptuous meals to help revive guests with hangovers.”
I think that the escargot helped us more with the amount of alcohol we drank that evening. We had also stopped at a pub in Montmartre earlier, drinking a few pints, and using ‘les toilettes’ at Corcoran’s Irish Pub. That Paris memory will remain with us forever.
This guy walks into a costume party with a girl on his back.
The host says “You know, this is a costume party.”
The guy says “Yes. I’m a snail.”
Host asks “What about the girl on your back?”
Guy replies “That’s Michelle.”
Thanks for reading.
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