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...website of the Daily Mail, another British paper, oozed schadenfreude over Caspar's coup with the marathon headline "Ooh La La: France's Culinary Bible Michelin Guide Picks Woman As New Editor - and She's German...
Francophobes who cast all French as neurotically hostile to anything foreign would be wise to upgrade their perceptions. Last week, the supposed champions of shrill nationalism responded with a Gallic shrug to the news that France's legendary Michelin guide will be edited by a German. The clichéd image of France as a bastion of macho swagger took a beating as well: the bible's new boss is a woman. (See TIME's Top 10 food trends of the year...
...French press accounts that did appear stuck to Michelin's own rather laconic communiqué announcing the appointment of German executive Julianne Caspar as the editor-in-chief of the company's 108 year-old Guide Rouge. Sagely, the reports avoided any moaning about German cooking or foreign assaults on la grandeur de la France. "Why should the appointment of Ms Julianne Caspar, someone who is clearly a hugely qualified traditional French cuisine proponent ... shock the French?" asked Anglophone French blog franceblogcom. "This blog and its French members are happy to learn that a woman, a German, has been selected...
...Some observers abroad, however, seemed so intent on mocking French angst over the news that they failed to notice there actually was none this time around. "French Find German's Role Hard To Swallow" shouted U.K. daily The Independent - then curiously went on to quote exclusively German sources hailing Caspar's appointment as revenge for the long-disparaged Teutonic food tradition...
...Virgin Atlantic said it was in talks with Germany's Lufthansa over the future of BMI, a British airline that Lufthansa is currently taking over. This year the German carrier has taken a 42% stake in Austrian Airlines, with plans to pick up the rest later, and a similar share in Brussels Airlines, which handed the Cologne-based carrier access to west Africa. British Airways has been talking to Spain's Iberia and Australian carrier Qantas about a merger...