In my small world, a new Maryse Condé novel is A Big Thing. I love Martinique, and want to spend time in Guadaloupe, which is MC's home. I spent an evening with MC in my friend's living room in Nishinomiya. I love her. I love her books. She is a mystery. Her translator, Richard Philcox, is her husband, and their marriage is a mystery. But her novels are stupendously wonderful.
So I had to have her latest. "The Story of the Cannibal Woman" (yes, in the original). Wow.
Maryse told me the best Carribbean restaurant in New York is the Bambou...and I went, and it was beyond my dreams ("this cozy, elegant room...reminds me so much of the elegant restaurants in the islands")...now it is "developed" into this dreadful modern thing. Alas. The "old" one was like stepping into Martinique----a lovely home, that is, not the city streets, which have their own charm!
The "old" one was reviewed 11 years ago....so change happens. Alas.
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I had no idea that Bambou is all different now. I went to a Trinidad/Soul food place that was delicious. Not as fancy as Bambou but I found the food even tastier.
Yep...I am heartbroken because I dream of Bambou still now.....hmmm....tastier food or longer menu? I loved Bambou....but then it fit my dream of living as a gaijin in Martinique with the colonist lifestyle....so romantic and un-politically correct. Alas (as P.K. would say)
maybe just more suited to my taste because i know you really really really liked bambou.. maybe we'll find another place like it. or better yet... lunch in Martinique? :)
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