SC - AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Robert Beaulieu robert.beaulieu at sympatico.ca
Tue Dec 2 17:40:47 PST 1997


Louise Sugar wrote:
> 
> While driving home this morning I passed a pile of boxes piled in front of a
> house and saw some books on the ground next to them....I stopped and was
> looking through the boxes...lots of odds and ends mostly broken and in the
> pile of books there was....Traditional French Cooking
> Larousse/Curnonsky...a woman came out of the house and I asked her if the
> books were hers...she said "no, we just bought the house and are clearing it
> out...that's the last of the stuff. The old guy who lived here was a cook or
> chef or something...we tossed boxes of books on cooking and stuff, some of
> them were so old!"  Then she laughed.  I asked her if I could have the book
> and she said "sure, I took out the stuff I wanted"
> The book is 'mostly' whole however she had taken a razor blade or exacto
> knife and CUT recipies from the book!!!!!!!!!!!   I am wondering what else
> she thoughtlessly tossed out as old and useless....one of the neighbors told
> me that the man was a chef, was 95 yrs old when he died and had a keen
> interest in cooking and illuminated manuscripts.  All I can envision is this
> man's precious collection at the bottom of some trash truck  :(  Lord knows
> what was in it....heavy sigh
> 
> Dragonfyr  :(




	Maybe...

		Les Très Riches Heures de Duc du Berry...
		
			But hopefully not...




				Lord Robert de Quelquepart


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