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...features such delicacies as glazed saddle of fawn, plums drenched in Armagnac (a famous French brandy) and parsley root fondue. tel: (49-7442) 470; www.bareiss.com Jörg Sackmann, the one-star chef at the cozy and plush restaurant Schlossberg, was named the "Christo of the kitchen" by Gault Millau. Sackmann likes to enfold his fish, vegetables, and desserts in elaborate wrappings made of anything from crepes to spaghetti. Try some of his stranger combinations, such as his famous bacon sorbet and pretzel soufflé. tel: (49-7447) 2890; www.hotel-sackmann.de If you're wondering what draws so many excellent chefs...
...celebrated French chef whose La C?te d'Or restaurant, recipient of three stars from the Michelin guide, was a pilgrimage site for gastronomes the world over; from a self-inflicted shotgun wound; in Saulieu, France. Late last month, La C?te d'Or was downgraded by rival food bible Gault-Millau, which gave it a 17-out-of-20 score, slipping from its previous 19. The only chef in the world to have a public company, Loiseau rose to fame as a pioneer of nouvelle cuisine and operated three other eateries in Paris. His death sparked criticism of the power...
There was always a bit of a nod and wink in France's punishment of its most famous contemporary saboteur. After all, while sheep farmer Jose Bove's ransacking of a McDonald's outlet in the Montpellier town of Millau two years ago was simple hooliganism in the eyes of the law, it was nonetheless overwhelmingly popular in a nation that mans the barricades at the first sign of U.S. cultural encroachment. Even Prime Minister Lionel Jospin termed Bove's Quixotic crusade "just...
...than from some factory or laboratory). Clearly, the plucky little farmer had managed to don the mantle of Astérix, the cartoon character whose mythical David-vs.-Goliath fight against the Roman occupiers symbolizes French national pride. Some 45,000 people from all over the country crowded into Millau for a protest rally during his trial - and the local McDonald's kept its doors closed throughout the two days of hearings...
...country in 1975 with his wife to join a small farmer movement against the planned expansion of a military base. In 1987, he launched his Confederation Paysanne organization, which organizes small farmers to take actions in support of traditional French agriculture - such as the raid on McDonald's in Millau...