Paul Bocuse: The Lyon
(France) Touring Game Created by Savvy
Mom Ruth Paget
Introduction
I
chose to name this game after Paul Bocuse, the Michelin-starred chef whose home
base was in Lyon. Bocuse was awarded the
Légion d’Honneur for his service to the French nation for popularizing nouvelle
cuisine, preparing meals for French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, and
agreeing to sell frozen nouvelle cuisine under his name to Japan (and the
sausage eaters of downtown Lyon).
Background
Reading
Paul
Bocuse’s cookbooks are a joy to read, but the dishes described in them are
difficult to prepare:
-Paul
Bocuse’s French Cooking translated by Colette Rossant
-Bocuse
à la Carte translated by Colette Rossant
Lyon
has some terrible history that they choose not to forget. Many of the crime stories have been turned
into television series and movies. Lyon’s
history is the subject of many nonfiction and fiction books:
-The
Killer of Little Shepherds by Douglas Starr
Belle
Epoque serial killer – a true story crime fiction like Truman Capote’s In Cold
Blood.
-Shantytown
Kid by Azouz Begag
The
problems of a star pupil from a minority group in France living in Lyon
-Resistance
and Betrayal: The Death and Life of the Greatest Hero of the French Resistance
by Patrick Marnham
-Unhealed
Wounds: France and the Klaus Barbie Affair by Erna Paris
-Cours
and Traboules de Lyon by Gérald Gambier
-The
Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Places to Visit in Lyon
-Musée
de Beaux Arts
Located
in a former Benedictine Convent, this museum houses art from Egypt to a large
collection of Impressionist paintings.
-Old
Town Lyon
The
Quartier Saint-Jean and the Quartier Saint-Georges resemble Italy with their
ochre-colored buildings with a few red ones here and there.
-Musée
Gadgne
Puppetry
and History of Lyon Museum
-Archaeology
Museum
Lyon
is an ancient Roman town.
-Les
Halles de Lyon
Covered
marketplace with 48 different shops.
-Colline
de la Croix-Rousse
Lyon’s
“traboules,” or covered passageways between courtyards of buildings around
several blocks are located here.
-Fabric
Museum
Lyon
had a large silk industry during the Renaissance Period that is dealt with here.
-Museum
of Decorative Arts
-Resistance
and Deportation Museum
Lyon
was known as the Capital of the Resistance during the Second World War.
-Printing
Press Museum
Lyon
was an important bookmaking center in the 15th and 16th
centuries.
Typical Foods of the
City of Lyon
-Tripe
sausages
-Blood
sausages
-Chicken
Liver Salad
-Langoustines
(crayfish) dumplings - quénelles
All
of those dishes above come with huge salads from local markets or gardens owned
by the city’s bouchons - local cafes.
Beaujolais Nouveau is the drink of choice with a lunch like this.
I
think “high-on-the-hog” body parts go to Collonges outside the city Lyon for
the Michelin-starred restaurants to use while Lyon still has some of the world’s
best butchers and clean-up crews.
Fortunately,
Bocuse did begin to make frozen gourmet dinners under his name for the Japanese
markets in the 1990s that the locals in Lyon also got to make for dinner at
night.
By
Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
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