Monday 21 January 2008

Cups and wardrobes

If you look carefully in the corner of many, if not all, French restaurants you will see a large wardrobe. I’ve always been curious as to what could possibly be kept in these wardrobes, surely not clothes. Over the years, I have seen waitresses approach these wardrobes, and inside I now know is where they keep the cutlery and crockery. Mystery solved. I have visited several French homes and some kitchens also have wardrobes to store crockery, but it is more common for the French to store their mugs and plates in a chest of drawers. There are even specially adapted chests of drawers to house shoes and wellingtons. I am now wondering where they keep their clothes….

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