{"id":329,"date":"2018-07-09T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/needarecipe.com\/food-blog\/?p=329"},"modified":"2019-03-30T12:35:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T12:35:42","slug":"a-beautiful-butterfly-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/needarecipe.com\/food-blog\/seafood_a-beautiful-butterfly-emerges","title":{"rendered":"A beautiful butterfly emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It seems like only last week that I was working for Imation Corpn in Cergy, 20 miles North-West of Paris. While I was there, my wife’s daughter worked and lived close by. To her delight, she and her husband found they were expecting a baby. I got the news at work one day that a little girl had been born in the nearby hospital. So after work, I drove up the hill and poked my head round the door. What I saw was a perfect face and dark, questioning eyes, already interested in everything going on around her.<\/p>\n\n

\"Cl\u00e9menceBut that was twenty years ago. Now, a wonderful butterfly has emerged from that ball of humankind, and her name is Cl\u00e9mence. This weekend, we met up with Cl\u00e9mence at her home in Cl\u00e9ry-Saint-Andr\u00e9 in the Loiret department of north-central France, near Orleans. Her parents were away and her sister was in Corsica with her grandparents, so Cl\u00e9mence was on her own. We thought it would be a good idea to take her out for a meal somewhere, so that’s what we did. (We don’t usually drive 100 miles for a meal!)<\/p>\n\n

We ended up at La Cri\u00e9e in Olivet, a nearby town. The restaurant was an unassuming building at the side of a busy road, but we were not disappointed either by the welcome, the service, or the food. Our butterfly decided to go for lobster and a glass of dry white wine. And why not? She’s 20 years old and worth spoiling once in a while. (And guess who ended up cracking the claws for her???) Marie-Danielle elected for a seafood platter, which left a large smile on her face too. Well worth the trip!<\/p>\n\n

\"Marie-Danielle<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It seems like only last week that I was working for Imation Corpn in Cergy, 20 miles North-West of Paris. While I was there, my wife’s daughter worked and lived close by. To her delight, she and her husband found they were expecting a baby. I got the news at work one day that a … Continue reading A beautiful butterfly emerges<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,61,28,3],"tags":[105,107,106,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/needarecipe.com\/food-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/needarecipe.com\/food-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/needarecipe.com\/food-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needarecipe.com\/food-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needarecipe.com\/food-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/needarecipe.com\/food-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/needarecipe.com\/food-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/needarecipe.com\/food-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needarecipe.com\/food-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needarecipe.com\/food-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}