I got an early birthday present of a marvellous book on photography by Ian Jeffrey ; How to Read a Photograph and in it is this picture taken in Paris in the 1920’s by Gremaine Krull.
Called La Marchand de Frites (The Chip Seller) it shows this woman tending a wonderfully bockety deepfat fryer on a street.
I don’t think health and safety would much like the way the chimneys are held up, over their flame boilers, by wire.
The thing that gives it special resonance for me is it proves that the strange combination of Mussels and Chips has a long culinary history.
On each side of the word Restaurant on the banner over the Marchand’s head are the words Moules and Frites