Lucky Number

This Saturday was such good fun. It had all the key ingredients that spelt a good day out.

Angouleme, had The Gastronomades on.

Angouleme is the capital of Charentes where life is slow and everybody wears Charentaises. This week-end it opened its doors to gastronomy.

Located at about 1h45 minutes drive from us, it took little consideration to decide to go over and check out what Gastronomades were all about.

The good thing is, that every single individual in the Dixie family enjoys a bit of food so the risk of being a poor day out was very low…

As we arrived, (late) the show I was most interested in had already started: “Window On Japon” a Japonese workshop on Japonese cuisine…(how much I cursed that we were late…) by the time we finally had found a place to park I hated every single person in the car and told them!

So, late we arrived and started watching the screen demo of an amazing chef turning its carrots into masterpieces. A lost girl was handling out random numbers to what will turn out to be raffle tickets. I took one and dismissed it trying to concentrate on the fuzzy screen, *Ben Ouai by that stage was telling me how thirsty he was…

The place was smelling amazing and with my aunt we were trying to figure out what was the white sticky texture they were playing with in front of us. Food appeared to be all ready.

“Hum, must be raffle time” we agreed…

“Numero 103…”

“Maman, c’est moi, je suis le numero 103″

Bein Ouai had only got the right number! We both walked towards the stage, bein Ouai had to answer a few questions like:” Does he prefer Mc Donald or Sushi…” and we then got directed towards a private room where it became apparent that we were going to sit down and gorge ourselves like kings…

Ben Ouai being only 8, me being there was not even questionned….

In the background I could still hear the numbers being called out.

“104″…non?

“104″ rang a bell, “it must me one of us”, I am expecting to see my aunt, but no one shows….looking for my camera…I find my number. It reads:”yes, 104!”

So, not only was I going to eat a Japanese feast on the back of being a chaperon but I now could eat it totally legitimately!

The food exceeded all expectations of course! I served lots of water to Bein Ouai and was the perfect guest bien sur just slightly disappointed I have to say to be there legit…