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...tray in a room reminiscent of your grandmother's conservatory. These days, shoppers at Selfridges in London are feasting on roast duck, salmon ravioli and pumpkin chili cakes in the store's Premier restaurant, which has a nice view over bustling Oxford Street. At Harrods, the clientele in the Georgian Restaurant is tucking into terrine of foie gras with cèpes, fillet of red mullet and wild game pudding whipped up by a chef who used to work at one of London's most popular restaurants, the Ivy. Even the most discerning Parisian diners have been reserving tables...
...much ignored this in-store phenomenon - Le Chênevert, which has been awarded high marks by reviewers, and Harvey Nichols' Fifth Floor being the exceptions. Harrods chef Chris Allen, who learned his trade in some of London's most prestigious eateries, can't get anyone to review his Georgian Restaurant. "We are doing an incredibly high level of food," he says, as he gently stirs a lobster sauce for a salmon en croute dish. "I think critics just don't think about reviewing big store restaurants...
Just beyond the last checkpoint, where Georgian Interior Forces yet again register visitors, a black BMW waited on the beat-up road. It belonged to Aslanbek, a self-described Chechen refugee and representative of the inhabitants of Duisi, the largest village in the Pankisi Gorge, a remote Georgian valley that hit the headlines in February after the U.S. announced it was an al-Qaeda base area. "Welcome to Duisi," he said, asking two journalists the purpose of their visit. To discover why Washington was so worried about the Gorge, we answered delicately. "No one here will answer that question...
Even before they arrive, the deployment of ?lite U.S. troops to Georgia is prompting some Chechen fighters to leave the Pankisi Gorge, Georgian officials claimed this week. However, just as swiftly, it has become evident that U.S. involvement has prompted another bout of shadowboxing between Georgia, Russia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Chechen rebels. So far, the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) remain unable to broker any kind of deal...
...within Russia's sphere of influence, has publicly offered support for the U.S. action. But he claimed, reproachfully, that Washington did not inform him in advance. Then his lieutenants put in the knife: a gas concern closely linked to the Kremlin announced it would suspend fuel supplies to the Georgian capital Tbilisi...