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rolls and sliced tomatoes (they put on a vinegar sauce and chopped onions and parsley) and a pastry and coffee, all for about $1 each), all eyes were on my head like so many arrows. A cook standing near the wide kitchen window tapped another cook and soon 6-7 people in there were even more boldly staring, so I waved to them! The alternative is to spend $1.50 at the coiffeur's, which I was trying to be a good girl and save. When we get our own place of course it'll be o.k. [[crossed out]] But this [[/crossed out]]

I have bought a French pocket cook book and am laboring to learn a huge vocabulary of foods, pots and pans and methods of cooking. We have enjoyed the cooking here very much; cheap food in France seems better, really better, than expensive food in England, and expensive food is fit for princes. Our first night here we ate (at Institut expense; we quit that) at the hotel' gourmet restaurant. We had some sort of fish as the main course, I don't think I have even had or will even have anything quite as good. The chief drawback of good or very tasty cooking