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...Colagreco, who has worked with all the French heavyweights (Bernard Loiseau, Alain Ducasse, Guy Martin, and especially Alain Passard), is based in the town of Menton on the French Riviera, just moments from the Italian border. His restaurant Mirazur has a stunning hillside setting, housed in a vast Modernist, three-story white rotunda with 360-degree views of the Mediterranean. The produce of its steeply terraced herb-and-wildflower garden and a citrus grove make a huge impact in the kitchen. "I believe vivid improvisation is key," says Colagreco, who adds new dishes daily according to whatever's ripe...
...Minutes for Convincing, a political show on the state-owned France 2 network. Marc Tessier, president of France Télévisions, which runs France 2, denied reports that he'd retracted the invitation at the government's request, saying he merely wanted to "avoid polemics." But Yves Loiseau, a France 2 journalist who represents employees on France Télévisions' supervisory board, accuses Tessier of "changing political guests to comply with the powers that be." Says Loiseau: "Maybe he represents the major stakeholder, but that doesn't give him the right to meddle." Barroso accepted...
...suspect the French of positioning themselves to influence the Arab-Israeli peace process by leveraging Hamas' European funding. France says it has found no evidence of such funding. "We fight against any terrorist groups who might have bases in France or find financing from France," says embassy spokeswoman Natalie Loiseau...
...after the suicide, the Cote d'Or staff tried to keep the restaurant open, in the words of its website, "in the spirit of Loiseau." But after one day, the shaken crew found it could not go on. A sign over the menu in front of the restaurant, obscuring Loiseau's famous $65 frog's-legs appetizer, announced it would be closed for the week. Loiseau's spirit was, in the end, too hard to match...
DIED. BERNARD LOISEAU, 52, perfectionist French chef whose Burgundy restaurant, La Cote d'Or, had recently seen its rating reduced by the powerful gastronomic guide GaultMillau; a suicide; at his home in Saulieu, France. (See page...