Tuesday, March 27, 2018
I first met Sue and Neiff Joseph in 1981 when I began visiting Bridgewater and later owned a house in Middle LaHave with my then wife Elizabeth. He was an easy person to be with totally sans façon and I always enjoyed his company. I have two distinct memories of Neiff - both involving food.
The first was one summer evening when he and Sue came down the LaHave River for dinner al fresco at ours. My mother was visiting us and she had made one of her specialties - roast red peppers - as a side dish to the grilled meats we had that evening. It's one of those simple dishes (three ingredients: the peppers are roasted, skinned and sliced with good wine vinegar and olive oil) which is addicting the first time you have it. Neiff, after first taste, politely but firmly took control of the bowl.
The second was during a Paris winter a couple years later where Elizabeth and I were living at the time. Neiff was passing through, returning from a surveying job he had just finished in Libya. He and a colleague, a cousin if I am remembering correctly, saw our fire place and fire wood. They started a fire and prepared kefta (can't remember if they found the ingredients in the kitchen or we ran out to get them.) from scratch and then grilled them over the fire. Fine country fare grilled on an open fire in the midst of Paris.
Thanks to Neiff and Sue for some fond memories of my years in Nova Scotia and a quickie with Neiff in Paris.
My condolences Alan
