While studying the famous French dish, Mah spoke with a Brittany resident named Louise Gesten, who remembered celebrating "le jour de cr锚pe" (the day of the cr锚pe) when she was growing up. Fridays were her family's particular day of the cr锚pe, but each family had their own. "Preparing the cr锚pes took the better part of the day," Mah wrote. "Louise's grandmother used to start at nine in the morning, mixing the batter by hand 鈥� she actually stuck her hand into the bowl of ingredients and beat everything together 鈥� and she didn't finish frying the last cr锚pe until three o'clock.... They ate so many cr锚pes that after the heavy lunch everyone would pull out blankets, curl up on the floor, and take a nap."
