Pot-au-Feu Dodin-Bouffant

I first read about this dish in a funny little book called The Life and Passion of Dodin-Bouffant, Gourmet, first published in French in 1925. Dodin is a mythical character living in the French countryside during the first half of the 19th century. There’s a pretentious visiting prince in the region, and Dodin decides to teach him a lesson— that simple things can be great—and invites the prince to dinner. When the prince arrives with great pomp and ceremony, Dodin announces that the