Weekend food: Raclette - Valais, Suisse
link - becoming a raclett-eur in Sion: http://www.rts.ch/video/info/journal-12h45/4873423-minimag-des-cours-de-raclette-existent-desormais-a-sion.html It's best in the early evening, after a long walk up there, way beyond the noise and scents of the valley, maybe along paths you've gone on many times before but they're never the same, changing from hour to hour as the light shifts, as the clouds bring shadow, as winter snow melts or a hot summer sun makes the rocks more golden or bright or gray or sugar white. Then before night comes with all the light above, the milky way, the clear sky that you never get to see anymore unless you live up there or in the desert somewhere, the easy, sweet air, the bells of the Herens cows somewhere off where you can't see, place some rocks in a circle and light up the fire as the sun just begins its dip for the night. Have a drink or two once you've put the potatoes on to bake, fingerlings, maybe slice of dry meat or chunky, rust...
