[BONUS] The Art of Love and Cooking : First amuse-bouche (ENG)

So as promised, here's the first bonus post to The Art of Love and Cooking. An "amuse-bouche" is food in small bites that are usually served between the dishes; sometimes they sum up a whole dish, and anounce what comes next. It litterally means "mouth-entertainer".

Why a bonus post? What will it be about?

Because I did a lot of research before writing this fic, and I learned a bunch of seriously cool stuff about food and chefs along the way, so I thought I really had to share it with you guys, since I know some of you are interested in it.
Take this as some kind of DVD commentary, where you can learn more about the recipes and some aspects of the fic I can't explain or linger on in the chapters. I'll talk about the food mentionned in the chapters, of course, but also food philosophy and great chefs. Although if I realize afterwards that this idea is boring everybody except myself to death, I promise I will stop, be not afraid ^^

How frequent will it be?

I'll post one bonus after each chapter - except if I don't have anything interesting to say, which might very well happen.

Want to share? Variants, stories, experiences, food philosophy, restaurants, favourite chefs or cookbooks, likes or dislikes? Want to trade recipes?

Then be my guest and feel free to comment on these posts, off-topic is permitted as long as it's still food we're talking about, or food-related anyway.

Here we go:

( Sardines, liquid nitrogen and Paul Bocuse )