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...star game. Since winning his second star in 1981, he had shamelessly crusaded for a third. He went nearly €5 million into debt expanding the 18th century Côte d'Or building in the tiny village of Saulieu. He transformed French cooking with his cuisine ? l'eau style, which uses water to bring out flavors and eschews the French weakness for cream and butter. In 1991, Michelin granted him his third star at last. Business shot up by 60%. And still, the sparkle thrown off by the three étoiles was not quite enough. "Bernard was pretty...
...feel comfy and really French, yet not enough of a caricature to be funky. One feels as though they’ve just stepped into the France portion of the Epcot Center, with cute French food vocabulary that anyone, not just French speakers, might understand (bierre en boutailles, eau de vie and les vins) printed on bright plastic panels behind the bar. Everything is too neatly arranged to be real, the white bistro-style dishes and dishcloths for napkins too self-consciously chosen. They amount to a bistro-style restaurant rather than a bistro. Probably somebody’s bistro...
Sunday afternoon Francophile, do not despair! The large cluster of café tables in the front of the restaurant are a perfect place to enjoy the offering of breads, a cute carafe of eau and perhaps even a little pot of the Earl Parsley or a shot of espresso. This would be, after all, a more authentically French start...
...great inspiration to other musicians and artists. He sang of peace and unity without drifting away from reality into a "flower power" world. He was very down-to-earth. I believe he would have been a wonderful friend--and not just because he was a Beatle. ANNA HELANDER Eau Claire...
...consistently authored essays low in both idea density and grammatical complexity a half-century or more earlier. One of the lowest-scoring samples begins: "My father, Mr. L.M. Hallacher, was born in the city of Ross, County Cork, Ireland, and is now a sheet-metal worker in Eau Claire." By contrast, one of the highest-scoring essays conveys the same type of information but in a dramatically different way: "My father is an all-around man of trades, but his principal occupation is carpentry, which trade he had already begun before his marriage with my mother...