TASTE BUDS | CHEZ PIERRE
from the kitchen of
Literally ‘Pasta Marianne’, an easy to create Franco/ Italian dish popular in the South East of France and which originated from the Mediterranean island of Corsica.
PÂTES MARIANNE Marianne Dubois was a beautiful and vivacious young lady popular with sailors and merchants who visited the island around the turn of the 19th Century. It’s reported she cooked and ‘socialised’ with equal passion and created this recipe to sell;
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supplementing and giving stability to her income. As she became older she eventually eschewed the societal element of her life and, having accrued enough capital, bought a run-down café in the old town of Porto-Vecchio and opened her own bistro. Her
enterprise worked well and she quickly gained a reputation for both her menu and her anecdotes of past liaisons with minor royalty, adventurers, wealthy businessmen and celebrities of the times. In 1952 she sold her thriving business for very much
