"Mike" > wrote in message
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> 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

Sheldon, you wanna take this one?

Felice