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Occasional stylistic choices, like a saccharine soundtrack mostly culled from the 2001 French film “Amélie,” also slightly encumber the production. Stark’s character is already painted as sweet, which she plays to full effect, so the added cuteness comes across heavy-handed...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Menagerie’ Shines Despite Added Sap | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...Americans are serious about Bocuse d'Or, the French cooking competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mario Batali, Celebrity Chef, Gets Back to Cooking | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...quickly sift through its massive pool of security-camera footage and pinpoint the movements and travel documents of the alleged killers. More embarrassingly, the Dubai authorities are claiming that the hit team stole the identities of Israeli dual-national citizens, and traveled into Dubai using false British, Irish and French passports. Now the governments of those countries are promising swift investigations into the matter, while the European media - especially in Britain - are asking whether or not those governments were forewarned of the operation. Meanwhile, Dubai is demanding that Interpol issue an arrest warrant for the chief of Mossad. While such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Faces Growing Fallout Over a Hamas Hit | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...food is very good, Madame. The meat is 100% French," the official said, picking up a brochure from her desk. I knew this brochure well, having e-mailed it to friends in the U.S. last year as a this-could-only-happen-in-France conversation piece. It lists in great detail the lunch menu for each school day over a two-month period. On Mondays, the menus are also posted on the wall outside every school in the country. The variety on the menus is astonishing: no single meal is repeated over the 32 school days in the period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: School Lunches in France: Nursery-School Gourmets | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

Americans struggling with obesity epidemics have for years wondered how the so-called French paradox works: How does a nation that ingests huge quantities of butter, beef and cakes keep trim and have such long lives? It could be the red wine, as some believe. But another reason has to be this: in a country where con artists and adulterers are tolerated, the laws governing meals are sacrosanct and are drummed into children before they can even hold a knife. The French don't need their First Lady to plant a vegetable garden at the Élysée Palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: School Lunches in France: Nursery-School Gourmets | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

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