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...looked around me, noticing that at this event, “Reverential Night at Cape Coast Castle,” many white faces filled the crowd. I thought about the Ghanaian’s insult to the Frenchman and what it must have felt like for the numerous white people who were present at this event geared toward Africans and members of the African Diaspora. Instead of guessing at their thoughts, I began to ask questions...
These white participants were welcomed with open arms, many times even given preferential treatment in the form of front-row seats and private pictures with dignitaries to quell any feelings of unease. I realized that many of the white guests at the festival, including the insulted Frenchman, truly understood the meaning of the event and their stake in the history that took place in the slave castle where we stood...
Overdosed on Starbucks? Burned out on the bar scene? Check out the chocolate lounge, a kind of petite pleasure palace first popularized in 17th century Europe, where chocolate was the exotic new import from South America. (A Frenchman reportedly opened the first chocolate-drinking house in London in 1657.) As reimagined for 21st century America, the lounges--there are now dozens in the U.S.--range from elegant Continental-style establishments like Manhattan's La Maison du Chocolat, where a cup of Guayaquil or Caracas hot cocoa sets you back $7, to the more mass-market Ethel's Chocolate Lounges, created...
...local and regional elections since 1983, seemed to be picking up votes in the final days of the campaign. Adding to the uncertainty, the election was held against the backdrop of a hostage drama being played out in Beirut, where Shi'ite extremists claimed to have executed one Frenchman and held seven others prisoner...
...copies; translations into French, Spanish and Dutch also became best sellers, and the book will ultimately appear in more than 30 languages. Someday, centuries hence, this phenomenon may seem easily explicable. Of course: How could such a book fail? After all, it is about a physically repulsive 18th century Frenchman with no discernible personality, no body odor and the keenest sense of smell the world has ever seen...