Eggs Also Mean Pancakes

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Modern Classics
Modern Classics

By Frances Bissell

Published 2000

  • About
I like pancakes because I enjoy eating food in my fingers. It is a pleasure to be indulged in many places, since it reflects a form of cooking used in a variety of kitchens.

Walk through the cobbled streets of Rennes, eating a galette made of sarrasin, or buckwheat flour. Sit by the Seine having just bought a lacy crêpe doused in Grand Marnier from one of the small crêperies on the rue de Rivoli. Enjoy the tender wrappers of rice flour enveloping the fragrant herbs and succulent meats which fill Vietnamese spring rolls. Dip the crisp edges of a Sri Lankan hoppa into the softly fried egg nestling in the middle. Or go to any vegetarian Indian restaurant, and eat your way through a masala dosai with its flavoursome coconut sambal.