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...American eagle judging the Gallic rooster is a bit like a sparrow that's skeptical about the allure of a butterfly. France's charm is less in its books and paintings than in Chanel No. 5, the banks of the Seine, its café terraces, its foie gras and its Christmas decorations on Avenue Montaigne. Here the first of the arts is l'art de vivre. And if many people here want to do as little as possible and be assisted, that proves there is still a lot of good sense among us. If America finds us intellectually unworthy...
...department-store answer to What to give the person who has everything? typically comes down to dollars: Saks Fifth Avenue offers a $215,000 bottle of perfume; British retailer Fortnum & Mason has a $41,000 Christmas basket--including caviar, champagne and foie gras--that is delivered by horse and carriage; and Neiman Marcus, ever determined to be the most ridiculous, is touting a $1.4 million Triton 1000 submarine with leather seats...
...with its 11,200 employees, lavishes money on such "high-culture" mainstays as museums, opera houses and theater festivals. But the ministry also appointed a Minister for Rock 'n' Roll in the 1980s to help France compete against the Anglo-Saxons (unsuccessfully). Likewise, parliament in 2005 voted to designate foie gras as a protection-worthy part of the nation's cultural heritage...
...market-cuisine restaurants in the city. Less elegant but just as inventive is the newish Au Pied de Cochon (514-281-1114), where iconoclastic chef Martin Picard throws coronary caution to the wind with his heavy and delectable pork, venison, lamb, poultry and fish dishes in seasonal dress. His foie gras-poutine appetizer (pate atop a version of the Quebecois snack of fries, cheese curd and gravy) typifies his highbrow-lowbrow approach...
...sort of a let down. But non-beer drinkers have it even worse. Imagine being veg and going to a party to toss ping pong balls into cups of ground beef, or doing a handstand over a keg of steak, or entering a lottery to win a stein of foie gras. It’s simply outrageous...