Normandy Part 3
Aug 08, 2009 | From the kitchen of Rose
We visited Le Nez de Jobourg and walked from there around towards the Nez de Voidries. It was high above the sea and very cold and windy. Cake loaned me her water-proof wind breaker. (I just HAVE to leave this typo intact!)
The lovely fishing village of St Vaast-la-Hougue, near to Barfleur.
A powerful monument at Utah Beach. I thought of my Dad who was on a boat approaching the shore which landed right after the invasion. He told me no one aboard knew that the invasion had already taken place.
Double click to enlarge this photo and you will see the most heart rending letter written by Antoine de Saint Exupéry in 1944 (the year of my birth). Kate's blog "A Merrier World" is taken from his classic book Le Petit Prince. I didn't know he had died in the invasion. If it is too difficult to read I will summarize by saying that it is a tribute to "the noble objectives" of the American people in the war.
Also heart breaking was this church with a replica of the American paratrooper (my Dad was one) impaled on one of the projections.
While I was at the tapestry museum, Kate and family went to a nearby town and just happened to catch this celebration of D-Day, honoring the Americans and, of course, singing the most stirring of all national athems: Le Marseillaise. (I was sorry to have missed that but as my grandmother often would say in Yiddish: with one behind you can only be in one place at a time.)
Kate and daughters and I on the ferry with the shores of Normandy in the background and Devon in our eyes to the North. When it turned dark we saw a full moon welcoming us to the shores of England.
While the ferry roiled across the channel, and Kate and I succumbed to queasiness, L did more cart-wheels on deck!
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Rose
08/17/2009 02:59 PM
francell--you must be kidding! not know about babka?! my dad brought one home every sunday from lichman's. anyway you'll be pleased to know that there is the most fabulous one posted on this blog from marcie goldman. just put babka i the search box. and let us know how you like it.
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Franceil Masi
08/17/2009 02:43 PM
I am very interested in getting The Cake Bible. I want to start making cakes, but I was wondering if you know how to make Babka. It is a Russian Jewish round tall cake (about 8 inches) with a whole in the center, filled with cinnamon, raisins, etc. I am not sure. Is there a recipe for Babka in your book? or do you even know about it?
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Jeannette
08/09/2009 04:03 AM
Just reading my previous comment, it reads as though my dad was one of the American soldiers in the war, just to clarify he was in the British army.
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Jeannette
08/09/2009 04:03 AM
Just reading my previous comment, it reads as though my dad was one of the American soldiers in the war, just to clarify he was in the British army.
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hector
08/08/2009 06:54 PM
On the subject, my father always told me to be proud of been Chinese and to show it so if sent to war, and to be assumed we are good cooks and kept in the kitchen instead of on the battle field! This must be before MRE's! Do u know that the KitchenAid stand mixer was designed after the hobarts at war? To make bread and feed the many small troops!
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Jeannette
08/08/2009 01:15 PM
It is quite easy to read Rose, and a compliment to the Americans who took part in the Second World War, my father too was one of them. He never spoke of his experiences during that terrible time until well after his retirement, and my, did he have some stories!!!
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