For ➊a slice of crusty bread or baguette
5 radishes
butter
salt & pepper
Slice the radishes thinly.
Butter the bread thickly.
Sprinkle with salt & pepper.
Serve with a cold lager beer.
American writer Ernest Hemingway ate these simple sandwiches often at the Montparnasse Closerie des Lilas in 1920's Paris. The Closerie, now a fancy restaurant and brasserie, started humbly as a diligence coach inn in 1798. Around 1900, the owner of the bal Bullier, a dance hall, planted 1,000 lilacs plants around the the place.
It became a popular meeting place for generations of writers and artists s.a. Baudelaire, Verlaine, Gide, Jarry, Alain-Fournier, Verhaeren, Maeterlinck, Modigliani, Appolinaire, Oscar Wilde, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, Henry Miller...
