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Over the last few years, French restaurants have come to be seen as outmoded in London. In the face of competition from homegrown chefs, as well as from hip designer diners and their modern international menus, cuisine from across the Channel has not fared so well. But some big names and openings in recent months have started to win back lost ground, and a renewed appreciation for French cuisine is slowly getting under...
...other French arrival to have really piqued the curiosity of London's gourmands is former Alain Ducasse protégé Hélène Darroze, whose two-Michelin-star restaurant on Paris' Left Bank has a formidable following. Darroze has taken up the pivotal role of executive chef of the reborn Connaught, www.the-connaught.co.uk, coming up with a menu that offers elegant reworkings of rustic dishes from the Landes region of her upbringing. Don't miss her caviar in black jelly and oyster tartare with a velouté of haricot beans...
More tellingly, Bush announced the first series of tangible steps from the Administration since the crisis began. He said he was dispatching Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Paris and Tbilisi to show support for French diplomatic efforts and Georgian resistance to the Russian invasion. He also said he was ordering Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to begin air and sea delivery of humanitarian supplies by the U.S. military...
Bush made the announcement after a morning of "rolling meetings" with national security advisers. These started at 8 a.m. with his daily intelligence briefing, which became a meeting of the National Security Council (NSC). Bush spoke to French President Nicolas Sarkozy at 10 a.m., then made his announcement in the Rose Garden at 11:10 a.m. The plan had been for Rice to announce the humanitarian mission at 10:30 a.m. But Bush and his advisers apparently decided that the President himself needed to deliver a more forceful American response to Russia. "The situation on the ground changed," NSC spokesman...
...fastest among all 32 legs in the race, and while Bernard swam a faster first 50m, Lezak, who also picked up the anchor leg for the U.S. in the last two Olympics, caught up in stunning fashion and motored to the wall. Going into Lezak's 100m, the French were .59 second ahead. It might have helped, too, that Lezak was able to see Bernard all the way down the last lap. Lezak breathes on his right side, and there's nothing like seeing exactly where your opponent is to get your stroke flying. "When you put a world record...