Tempura in my Oberkampf Fief.

Only two of five Japanese restaurants, in my direct environment, offer a 'tempura'
menu [seafood and/or vegetables, battered and deep fried].
The Fujiwara, opened eight years ago and the Kyobashi - newly arrived in the
neighborhood, which also offers two tasting menus [30 and 50€] and therefore attracts
the majority of Japanese food lovers.

The tempura recalls the 'fritto misto' [mixed fry] from Piedmont, a northern Italy's
region, which is easily explained by the fact that this dish was brought to Japan, in
the mid-Sixteenth century, by the Portuguese, although this recipe is rather common
in many other countries of southern Europe, like France and Italy.

Fujiwara - 109, rue Saint Maur - Paris XI

Kyobashi - 117, rue Saint Maur - Paris XI

The three left - Kuchiyaki, Kimono, and IDfunSushi - are traditional sushi bars,
serving sushi, sashimi and yakitori menus.

[Click on any pic to enlarge].
Kouchiyaki - 122, rue Oberkampf - Paris XI
Kimono - 115, rue Saint Maur - Paris XI
IDfunSushi - 94 avenue Parmentier - Paris XI
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Next one to try will be the 'Nakagawa', at 3, rue Saint-Hubert, Paris 11th,
recommended by Pascaline Mulliez from the namesake art gallery.
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"L'Illustration" - Année 1938 - Aug/December

L'ILLUSTRATION: 5293 numbers - more than 180.000 pages - several million photographs,
autochromes, drawings, original paintings - a memory of national and international history
from 1843 to 1956. Here is the 1938 year, from August to December [see HERE for January
to July].









The last édition of December 1938, with an editorial by Georges Duhamel
from the Académie Française on 'The Duties of Intelligence'... a text still
relevant nowadays!


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"L'Illustration" - Année 1938 - January/July

Throughout a century - from 1843 to 1944 - from the July Monarchy until the end
of the French Third Republic, "L'Illustration", the first illustrated weekly in French,
has been the mirror of all the major events and daily life, in France and worldwide.
["L'ILLUSTRATION", official site].

The first edition of January 1938 - the 96th year since the birth of the magazine - highlights
a British-Japanese meeting in Shanghai , on the site where a grenade, launched by a Chinese
student, exploded.











[Click HERE for August to December 1938].

"L'illustration" is the first title of the French press to have used photography in a systematic
way since the late nineteenth century.
The magazine was recognized as a national treasury by the French State, for the extent and
the richness of its worldwide events' coverage.

Check out "L'ILLUSTRATION, or the Memory of a Century", a documentary by René-Jean
Bouyer about the magazine history [from the official site].
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[Go to: ANNEE 1937]