The food, however, is sophisticatedly French: oysters, mussels with ginger, John Dory with white beans and ham – served on slates.
A dish of eggs with bacon or ham, served with toast, is just $2.85, and an omelet is just $3.25.
Though it sounds like a footie star of the 1950s, this breaded ham served with pineapple rings and glace cherry has curious appeal.
A tasty Berlin barbecue ham is edged in spice ($11.97 a pound), but it is milder than the salty and smoky paper-thin slices of landschinken, a cured ham served like prosciutto ($19.87 a pound).
Exhibit A in this weekend's trial: the braised rabbit with sweated collards, red peas and country ham served at Animal, Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo's hipstery, minimalist restaurant in Los Angeles.
And try the labuznicke prkenko, a plate of smoked pork, thick-cut Hungarian sausage and English-style ham served with spicy mustard and eye-opening fresh horseradish for 99 koruna.
I feel like celebrating at my favorite local restaurant, The Publican, where my fellow-writer Walter Kirn joins me for a supper of oysters, suckling pig, and three kinds of aged ham served with a Nordic-creamery goat butter and peasant bread.
Focaccia with chargrilled peppers and ham serves 4 Magic ingredient focaccia The focaccia in this quick-to-make, satisfying sandwich contains olive oil, which in turn contains monounsaturated fats that boost the levels of the 'good' form of cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein (HDL), within the blood.
That influence is evident at once in the glorious cured ham served with focaccia and carta di musica (a paper-thin Sardinian crisp bread), and plays such a major supporting role in everything else that you suspect she'd be happier jettisoning all the other stuff that makes the cuisine a kind of Franco-Anglo-Italian hybrid.
Urbane enough to feel superior over canned ham served at Christmas parties, McBaine cannot see what is wrong with comparing the leadership of the LDS church to the leadership of Wal-Mart.
