Why French food wins
One of the universally acknowledged truths is that French cuisine is
the best and that French chefs are the most rigorously trained and
most exacting. Even today, when the culinary standards of America and
many European countries have risen far higher than the modest levels
of a couple of decades ago, French cooking and French cooks retain
their cachet.

book review of ACCOUNTING FOR TASTE: THE TRIUMPH OF FRENCH CUISINE By
Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson (University of Chicago Press)
at http://www.washtimes.com/books/20041...2532-7493r.htm