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SENTENCED. JOSE BOVE, 47, media-savvy French sheep farmer and anti-globalization hero; to three months in jail, for ransacking a half-built McDonald's last year in Millau, France...
...thought they were fantastic," he says, "with all the icing and decorations and candles. What kid could resist that?" He was apparently less taken with hamburgers. Last August the radical French farm leader led a commando attack on a McDonald's outlet under construction in the southern town of Millau. Armed with crowbars, sledgehammers, wrenches and screwdrivers, these crusaders for the French way of life dismantled the fast-food franchise...
Behind the August incident in Millau was a deep French anger at the U.S. decision to clamp 100% tariffs on Roquefort cheese and other luxury French-food imports--Washington's WTO-approved response to a European ban on its hormone-treated beef. The broader battle cry of these rural Robin Hoods is their rejection of "la mal-bouffe"--lousy food, as symbolized by the famous American burger chain. Carted off in handcuffs, Bove spent 20 days in prison and emerged as one of France's most popular heroes. Soon he was giving countless TV and newspaper interviews and crisscrossing...
...glass pyramids of the Louvre, because I was tired of steak frites. I had been eating the same meal at countless restaurants, some of course better than others, but all really the same. Unless you're Parisian, a guide-book is called for to alleviate such dilemmas. Gault-Millau was obviously the best for purposes of dining. On my budget, however, selecting the venue for the evening meal in that way would be exaggerating. This economical state of mind led me to choose between Harvard's Let's Go and Berkeley's On the Loose...
...publishers of the Guide Gault-Millau plan to appeal the Mr. Chow verdict. Henri Millau suggested that the suit was "a publicity stunt," adding: "I guess that in the next few days people will flock to his restaurant and they will no doubt be sadly disappointed by the so-called authentic Chinese cooking." Said New York City Restaurant Critic Mimi Sheraton (who also pans Mr. Chow's): "It was the most outrageous award I've ever heard of. If this decision were upheld, I would feel inhibited in writing reviews in the future." At the very least...