Saturday 26 February 2011

Fougasse

Waiting for the plane at Heathrow, we went to Cafe Rouge and had a "fougasse" with dips and a glass of wined.

Fougasse was described on the menu as a "French Bread", which made me think of a French baguette. But I had heard of "Fougasse" as the name of a cartoonist. I made a note to look up "fougasse".

So I looked at Wikipedia.

As a bread, fougasse is etymologically related to focaccio.

Fougasse was the pen name of the cartoonist Cyril Kenneth Bird (1887-1965) - he took his name from a type of landmine

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