How do you feel about kidneys?

[World's End Stella]

I remember the first time I ever ate the rognons de veau au sauce moutarde. It was back in the days when I would train with L'Equipe de Voltige; at a stage in Blois I worked particularly hard one day on negative flicking and was advised by my teammates at dinner that to replace lost energy, the kidneys were more or less essential.

My life may be said to have truly started when I first tasted the rognons.

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I ordered them by mistake in Caveau de Palais (think that was the name) in Paris.

Nice, I enjoyed them. But still wouldn't go out of my way for them. They're the sort of thing I would only ever order in a very upscale place which knew how to do them perfectly.