While no one will make kugel as good as your mom' (or bubbie's), there are a great many ways one can make this baked casserole dish: sweet, savory, with small noodles, big noodles, potatoes in place of noodles, with apples on top or raisins mixed in.
Meanwhile, the Big-Noodle writes lovelorn letters.
She entertains a light courtship with the Big-Noodle (as she calls him) before promptly fleeing on tour with the troupe, leaving her almost-lover "putting on the look of a beggar at the pastry chef's window".
Throughout this extraordinary – irreplaceable! – novel, Colette provides many exquisitely timed funny-sad turns, as when the boisterously assertive Renée argues with her agent, or when the hapless Big-Noodle takes her out in his new car, not to mention the hilarious cameos from Fossette, Renée's beloved mastiff that "knows how to play cards in the bulldog manner".
Entree categories are South East Asia, Red China, chef selection, big bowl noodle soup and stir-fry noodles-fried rice.
(Given the quality of that soup, I'm sorry not to have had a chance to try one of the "big bowl noodle soups" on the menu — a choice of the usual proteins, plus rice or egg noodles, offered in Thai and Chinese styles).
"Big bowl" noodle soups run $8.95 to $11.50; other entrees range from $8.95 for vegetables to $13.95 for the "gourmet selection" dishes.
It now seems Fogle might not be quite as big a noodle as he first appeared, and the Russians not quite as smart.
Big, crispy noodles paired with duck sauce were pure Chinese-restaurant nostalgia.
