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Huitrerie Régis
There is nothing like the feeling of a repentant woman eager to atone for her sins.
An internationally renowned writer without a cel phone, let’s call her Diane Johnson, had completely forgotten our luncheon engagement, leaving me to enjoy the terrine de sanglier, pavé and fromage blanc/chantilly alone.
She insisted on treating me to lunch in expiation. Her choice was Huitrerie Régis in the 6th. A tiny space –only 14 seats, pristine with white tiled walls serving thinly sliced saussicon, huitres, crevettes and a wine list dominated by Sancerres and Muscadets-it is simplicity personified.
Big beautiful, meaty speciales, fines de Claire, belons from Marenne Oléron, pink crevettes of substantial size, a little bread and butter, mignonette, if you wish, although I prefer to taste the salty Atlantic.
A dozen to start followed by a wedge of cheese, a fruit tarte if you have room and coffee.
An assortment of Armagnac and Cognac is on hand. We skipped the digestifs but all was forgiven.
Huitrerie Régis-3 rue de Montfaucon75006 Paris
Unfortunately Jon Rowley is no longer around to share his knowledge of the magnificent mollusk we know as the oyster but in this 2006 interview with RW Apple of The New York Times he spells it out for eternity.
A FOOTLOOSE young American named Jon Rowley sat in a down-at-the-heels room in Paris one day in the mid-1960's, reading "A Moveable Feast," Ernest Hemingway's posthumously published memoir of life in the city during the 1920's.
One passage above all seized his attention. Hemingway had written, "As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans."
At that moment, Mr. Rowley experienced a kind of epiphany that shaped not only his life but, eventually, the oyster culture of the Pacific Northwest. He resolved, he told me not long ago, "to eat lots of oysters, as many as I could afford, and to make it my quest to learn all about oysters and how they are cultivated, distributed and consumed." He haunted the wholesale market at Rungis, near Orly Airport, visited the shellfish beds in Brittany and the Charente, poked into restaurant kitchens, took notes and pictures and read everything he could lay his hands on.
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Join me for a day of flanerie as we walk in the footsteps of Jean Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, Miles Davis James Baldwin and many others.
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