Word: bordeaux
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Sancton's great-grandfather emigrated in the 1860s from Bordeaux to New Orleans, where Sancton grew up. Since first visiting France in 1971, Sancton has spent more than half his adult life in Paris--in the '70s as a Rhodes scholar writing his doctoral thesis ("America in the Eyes of the French Left, 1848-1871"), in the '80s as a TIME correspondent and since January 1993 as the head of our bureau. Helping deepen his Gallic roots are his French wife Sylvaine and their two binational children, Sandy, 26, and Julian...
...Nixon's ever- expandable enemies list. But he -- and we -- mellowed during his years in self-imposed exile. As he gradually emerged as an elder statesman of the Republican Party, several of our editors, writers and correspondents were invited to intimate dinners, featuring good beef and vintage red Bordeaux, at Nixon's house in Saddle River, New Jersey, where the host talked sagaciously about domestic politics and foreign affairs...
...Bordeaux, Burgundy and Tuscany, 1993 was an iffy year for winemaking, thanks to preharvest rains. That's the bad news for oenophiles. The good news is that 1993 has been a vintage year for books about their favorite beverage, with several volumes that qualify as collectibles...
Michel Montignac ogles a slice of foie gras marinated in Cognac. He beams over a chocolate mousse swimming in lavender-flavored sauce and, closing his eyes, dreamily sniffs a glass of Bordeaux. Delicious, yes, but surely these rich offerings are as fattening as French food...
...media-hyped Dr. Feelgood. But in France, the former pharmaceutical-company executive has made a mint telling Gallic gourmands what they want to hear. His empire, dubbed "La Galaxie Montignac," is an $11 million-a-year business with a chain of food boutiques, a vineyard producing Chateau Michel Montignac Bordeaux, a mail-order firm selling Montignac foie gras and Montignac chocolate, a quarterly magazine, an Institute of Vitality and Nutrition through which 350 physicians prescribe his method, and a company offering one- day diet seminars for corporate executives at $420 a head. Last October, Montignac opened a 240-seat restaurant...