Passadoc Gazette - No 121

Hebdo 121

The bouillabaisse...

The Gazette last week (No 120) evoked the grimoires and spells of... And today, what do we read when we look for the origin of the bouillabaisse? That she would come from ancient Greece and have had virtues... magic !

We should not give here a recipe for bouillabaisse: although we like to receive messages (romenzo2010@gmail.com), it would probably be a mountain of mail because every family, every cook, every restaurant chef, inn or gargot holds the list of ingredients considered absolutely essential... or totally superfluous!

– Crustaceans in the bouillabaisse? Have you lost your mind?

- White wine? Hurry up with four dallebore grains! And how about a little slender croutons while you're there!

We found some!

Let's say at the base, it's a soup – we also read stew – made up of fish « noble » or damaged in nets, or sold on the wharf; the fishermen cooked them all together in a large pot; It was consumed on the boat or as a family. Actually, it was the poor people's meal.

Whatever the coasts – Peruvian, Canadian, Irish, etc. – there are fish soup recipes everywhere.

In Greece it is called kakavia (kakavi → brass pot tripode).
On our west coasts, Luzian fishermen eat the ttoro (pronounced) tito → concert of pots).
Higher, the Bretons name it cotriad (from Breton) kaoteriad → content of a pot).

But it is only in Marseille that the Famous bouillabaisse of the internationally renowned (Provencal) bouiabaisso → Boil and lower!

♫♫♪♪♪♫♪

To make a good bouillabaisse
We have to get up early in the morning.
Prepare the pastis and constantly
Telling jokes with hands

The brave take their cane
And go fishing it themselves
But the fish passes and laughs
There's more to buy at the market

Ah! that it's good the bouillabaisse
Ah! God, that's good!

♪♫♪♪♫♪

La Bouillabaisse – Fernandel
Composer: Hubert Giraud, born in Marseilles (1920) – Parolers: Roger Lucchesi and Jean Sablon.

– Where is our plate?

Patience! Here she is!

Jeanne Monin
Research on various sites.

If you haven't seen the documentary Provencal cuisine, fada dishes [broadcast on Tuesday, May 9th on the 5th], go get it on « replay » (This is neo-French!)

Pistou soup in Miramas, bouillabaisse Marseille and Sanary (Var), pan bagnat in Nice, olive oil In Nyons, chickpeas in Rougiers (Var)... The gastronomic walk teaches those who do not yet know that there is something to take and leave.

Some fadas believed themselves in a Pagnol movie and added some to make even more Provencal!

Provencal olive oil is very rare; sometimes Spanish or other oils are baptized « Provencal women » on the label of pretty bottles. I point out in passing that we find excellent Spanish oils that show their origin.

There is the true bouillabaisse prepared with fresh Mediterranean fish and the others using frozen fish from the North Atlantic or the South Pacific. The boottail can come from China.

I haven't eaten bouillabaisse in about 25 years, for fear of being disappointed. In a Var winery, it was exceptional. I had attended his preparation and participated in his tasting. The only false note that day was the personality table and the minor guest table and small hands.

The bouillabaisse is not that: we all taste it together, all equal.

André Abbe

The Echoes of the Week
Transhumance
Time passes...
Malaise in Cannes
Herb for rabbits
Exhibitions and conferences
The Library of Passadoc
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Transhumance

Here comes the time of transhumance of sheep herds.

Every year Passadoc publishes photos of the animals of Julien Raynaud and the Bellini family.

I remind you that the « sheep » Most of them are sheep.

Priority this year is the transhumance of cattle which are mostly cows.

The most faithful among you will recognize the place where my late friend Jean Marie Michel kept the cantonal herd during the summer.

This mountain has an unusual name. Do you remember? It's « the mountain of the Heads ».

I'll come back to our sheep later, I promise.

André Abbe

Time passes...

I've got the memory...

I don't know if I took this picture from my village of Roquebrune in the '70s, '80s or '90s. In any case, the place had changed little since the 1950s when I was a child.

In place of the greenery of the foreground, there is today a large parking lot, mostly full.
The game seems lost.

Every year the number of parking places around the village is increased, but it is still difficult to find one, especially in the summer.

André Abbe

Jean-Philippe Tinois
I've never seen this place before as a parking lot. Undoubtedly created for a need, the church had been created to meet a need of the time also ....

Marie-Odile Beraud
In Puget, we build everything; But very little parking... which leads to other problems.

Claude Boyer
Pierre Dac said « The future is only from the past in preparation« ... What will our grandchildren say in 50 years' time when we see our past present?...

Jeanne Monin
We all have a little nostalgia when we look at the past... Passadoc's purpose!

Ah... the beautiful images of the bugadières on the edge of the river... those of the oxen pulling the plough of autumn tillage guided by a peasant, cap screwed on the head and hands nude...
Little emotion...

And we shut down his computer... Hurry up the car keys because we have some shopping to do at the supermarket! Or that it is necessary to run to the station and climb in the TGV which puts the capital at less than 4 hours ...

So goes the time...

1900: 40 million French... A fleet of 1,600 vehicles!
1950: 42 million souls ... and 2 million cars.
2022: 66 million (after INSEE) and more than 45 million cars...

Malaise in Cannes

Where was this picture taken? On the west coast of the United States?
No... in the very English-speaking city of Cannes during the Film Festivals.

It will be held this year from 16 to 27 May. Jeanne du Barry will be mentioned in the American film which will have the honour, out of competition, to open the festival.

Poor Barry's lady who was guillotined just 230 years ago.

She will speak English in the movie... It won't surprise anyone in Cannes.
See you later.

André Abbe

This « invasion » Many comments on Passadoc.fr are based on English! Here are some of them:

Claude Boyer
Why this poster in English?... I cannot help but see red in front of the vampirization of our language by English. I have nothing against Shakespeare's language or those who speak it, but we are in Molière's land, Voltaire and Hugo, so let us speak their language..

Philippe Ferréol Rebuffel

Like all over the world, at festivals where great shows, the audience is cosmopolitan. We need a way to communicate. In many cases, English is required by its flexibility.

François Abbe
I think we're at a turning point. Real time machine translation is a reality. Deepl is a crazy tool for translations. Soon multilingual should be everywhere...

– Yes, the world changes. It even flips quickly, with the arrival of the AI and all its possibilities. Communication will be greatly modified and hopefully facilitated. We're already doing pretty good with Google Translate in Turkey. Few people speak English, but almost everyone (even the elders in the countryside) uses their smartphone to talk. The main thing is to understand each other well.

... comments Philippe Ferréol Rebuffel... while Claude Boyer reply:

– I regret it, a language that disappears is a culture that dies. Latin, ancient Greek – to name but a few – became dead languages; What remains of these cultures today? The ruins we were ecstatic about. Frédéric Mistral said: "Quau ten la lengo ten la clau( Who holds the tongue holds the key.)

Jeanne Monin
And during that time – everywhere on French lands! – a lot of hard work is being done to preserve regional languages, music and traditions.

Maybe those who were watching « Apostrophes » – a program dedicated to reading, animated by Bernard Pivot – do they remember a holy anger of Antonine Maillet: she reproached us for letting us be invaded by English while there, in Canada, she fought with others to preserve Molière's language! A height!
« Our French language, with its diversity and promise of living together, makes our distinction and our wealth. That's the accent of Montreal.« .

Remember: when the walkmans appeared, Quebecers found « Walker » ; Today, they use « mail » rather than « email ».

There is no question of rejecting everything: languages evolve by pinging in neighbouring countries... But from there to accept everything...

Rabbit grass

In my childhood, every night I saw farmers returning home carrying a bag of herbs for rabbits. « Doing erba » a little extra job after the day of work.

The last time I saw a man with his sarcoir fill a herb bag... It was in Rigaud (Alpes Maritimes) about thirty years ago (photo).

To believe that rural people no longer raise many rabbits or give them food from elsewhere.

Glory to the rabbit! It's his year in China but not Vietnam.

André Abbe

Maryse Laugier
Summer, early in the morning, I was also going with my grandmother to pick up grass for rabbits!

Claude Boyer
I often accompanied my mother « make grass » For rabbits. She took advantage of it to pick up the wild salad, coustline, rampuchou to accompany the « rotate » (grives) that Pepe had killed « Garlic ».
[agachon → hunting stationt]

Volpine Volpe
My grandfather was growing a alfalfa square for his rabbits. I had no right to use the fake or sickle to pick it up when I wanted to help, so I went earlier than he did because I loved those tools.
(Yes, I got caught and yelled cleanly!)
In the end, he gave up raising...

I had taken love for a young rabbit a little weak and away that I was going to caress every day.

One Sunday, the rabbit was cooked and, at the time of eating, I was in doubt:

– What was that?

– Oh, you know, the boy here, a little weak!

I cried so much that nobody ate the dish.

And that was the end of the rabbits!

Ensuite on a gardé le carré de luzerne pour les poules et les petits lapins nains que j’ai reçus en compensation du trauma en civet.

Un autre souvenir de petits jobs en sus, c’est le ramassage de seaux entiers d’escargots blancs grimpeurs de grillage pour les canards… Je voyais d’autres personnes le faire dans la campagne… j’aimais bien ça aussi…

Cyril R. Vergnaud
J’ai aussi des souvenirs de la luzerne pour les lapins (et autres animaux) et des orties pour le cochon.
Les hommes utilisaient une faux « ‘na daïo« (la dalha) ; les femmes et les enfants une faucille » ‘na faousse » (una fauç).

Samedi 14 mai

Roquebrune-sur-Argens

En présence de son petit-fils Nicolas, a eu lieu

l’inauguration de la commémoration
Marcel Pagnol

Un voyage des collines du Garlaban au Rocher de Roquebrune.

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16 mai : Le festival de Cannes ouvre ses portes.

Voilà l’occasion pour les cinéphiles de parfaire leur savoir cinématographique en se rendant à Draguignan pour faire connaissance avec Alice Guy.

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Rédaction Passadoc – Participants included:
André Abbe
François Abbe
Marie-Odile Beraud
Claude Boyer
Philippe Ferréol Rebuffel
Maryse Laugier
Jeanne Monin
Jean-Philippe Tinois
Cyril R. Vergnaud
Volpine Volpe
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