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Arriving on a motorcycle, wearing jeans and a carrying a backpack, Alain Cojean is hardly the image of a Paris restaurant mogul. But then again the 45-year-old with an unassuming but frenetic demeanor hasn't created your typical Paris eatery. On an unusually warm April morning across the street from the Louvre, in a former tea salon in a building built in the mid-19th century, he is inspecting progress on the construction of what will be the newest location of his namesake fast-food restaurant. Five or six weeks from now, the team of workers sanding...
...organic and biodynamic offerings, and sommeliers at restaurants across the country are creating wine lists that exclusively feature these ecologically sustainable wines. More important, some of the world's greatest vintners have signed on to the biodynamic craze, including Domaine Marcel Deiss of Alsace and Italy's Emidio Pepe. Alain Dugas, winemaker at France's Château La Nerthe--where wine has been produced almost continuously since 1560--began experimenting with biodynamics on 20 of its Châteauneuf-du-Pape acres 10 years ago. Why the sudden urge to tinker with centuries-old practices? "To maintain pH balances," Dugas explains...
With the opening of Nobu, the Intercontinental becomes the first hotel in Hong Kong to offer its guests not one but two restaurants helmed by an international celebrity chef. The hotel is already the home of Spoon by Alain Ducasse. The double whammy created by Nobu's unveiling means that discerning diners are going to face a tough choice when they stride through the hotel's thick glass doors...
With the opening of Nobu the Intercontinental becomes the first hotel in Hong Kong to offer its guests not one but two restaurants helmed by an international celebrity chef. The hotel is already the home of Spoon by Alain Ducasse. The double whammy created by Nobu's unveiling means that discerning diners are going to face a tough choice when they stride through the hotel's thick glass doors...
...Maybe so, but France 24 had a controversial and politically charged birth. Less than three months before its December launch, respected journalist Ulysse Gosset stepped down as the channel's managing director for news after clashing with the station's board chairman, Alain de Pouzilhac, whose previous career was in advertising rather than news. Rumors of political maneuverings have been so thick that late last month an editorial in Le Monde accused the channel's bosses of "schemings unworthy of a banana republic...