After a few dishes of soggy pasta, half-cooked frozen dinners and burned omelets, Paulette decided to inculcate her with a few simple principles of cooking. She sat by the kitchen stove and taught her phrases as basic as bouquet garni, cast-iron pot, hot frying pan and stock. She couldn’t see well, but guided by her sense of smell she instructed Camille how to proceed: You’ve got the onions, the tiny pieces of bacon, slices of meat and all that, so you’re all set. Now pour in your stock . . . Go ahead, I’ll tell you . . . Fine! “That’s good. I’m not saying I’ll make a cordon-bleu cook of you, but still . . .” “And Franck?” “What about Franck?” “Are you the one who taught him to cook?” “No, not at all. I gave him the taste for it, I suppose. But all that fancy stuff, that’s not me. I taught him home cooking. Simple country dishes, cheap to prepare. When my husband was laid off because of his heart, I started working for an upper-class family as a cook.”
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