Word: cotes
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...epicenter of small-plate dining is the Bay Area, where out-of-work dotcommers are seeking to reconcile their gourmet habits with shrinking budgets. Diners can sample rabbit-sausage flatbread for $12 at A Cote in Oakland, or they can snack on stuffed dates with chorizo and blue cheese for $8 at the Spanish-Moroccan Baraka in San Francisco. The Russian Hill restaurant Pesce last year shifted away from traditional full-service Italian food to small plates in the Venetian cicchetti style, like swordfish rolls or octopus-and-potato salad...
...France's Mediterranean coast, savvy travelers head southwest to the Atlantic and the relative quiet of the Bay of Biscay. There, in the region known as Basque Country, flat beaches give way to the soaring Pyrenees, which separate France and Spain. Those willing to forgo the glitz of the Cote d'Azur will be rewarded with splendid outdoor activities, including some of the best fly fishing to be found...
...secret that Loiseau was obsessed with the star game. Since winning his second star in 1981, he had shamelessly crusaded for a third. He went some $5 million into debt expanding the 18th century Cote d'Or building in the tiny village of Saulieu. He transformed French cooking with his cuisine a l'eau style, which uses water to bring out flavors and eschews the French penchant for cream and butter. In 1991 Michelin granted him his third star at last. Business shot...
...after the suicide, the Cote d'Or staff tried to keep the restaurant open, in the words of its website, "in the spirit of Loiseau." But after one day, the shaken crew found it could not go on. A sign over the menu in front of the restaurant, obscuring Loiseau's famous $65 frog's-legs appetizer, announced it would be closed for the week. Loiseau's spirit was, in the end, too hard to match...
DIED. BERNARD LOISEAU, 52, perfectionist French chef whose Burgundy restaurant, La Cote d'Or, had recently seen its rating reduced by the powerful gastronomic guide GaultMillau; a suicide; at his home in Saulieu, France. (See page...