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...sandwich bars of London, with their encyclopedic variety of breads, rolls and fillings. All too often in Paris, a sandwich means a length of flaccid baguette, a soggy slice of factory-farmed ham and a smear of margarine masquerading as butter. As work habits get more hectic, Parisians have begun to realize that a light snack at midday is nothing to be ashamed of. Yet although the city has welcomed its hamburger restaurants and panini stands with open arms, le fast food has traditionally been viewed as a disreputable foreign invention. Today, thanks to superstar chef Alain Ducasse, veteran...
...stumbled onto his future medium when a Parisian friend offered him her photographic equipment in 1929. Within a few years he was featured in New York art galleries, and in 1946 he became chief photographer at Vogue magazine...
...skeletons recently unearthed near Vilnius, Lithuania - the remains of some of the 440,000 Imperial soldiers who perished while fleeing Russia following Napoleon's catastrophic 1812 campaign. And French Culture Minister Jean-Jacques Aillagon is considering a request to allow genetic testing on the remains in Napoleon's Parisian tomb. The exam would end decades of speculation that the British returned the corpse of Bonaparte's valet rather than the man himself to France in 1840. French scientists have already cleared the British of the 41-year-old charge that they poisoned the exiled emperor with arsenic. "Today's world...
...rainy season. Instead, guests dine on a breezy verandah overlooking a lush forest of banana trees, palms, orchids and ginger flowers. Ceiling fans and geckos on the hunt lend an equatorial air, but the fine linens, crystal stemware and impeccable service could be straight out of a Michelin-starred Parisian gem. The six-course tasting menu ($26)?starting with a delicate amuse bouche of parmesan and rosemary, and ending with a decadent chocolate mousse souffl? served with coconut sorbet?is not so much fusion food as French classics with a tropical twist. For his seared tuna, Salans eschews the obvious...
...front-of-house staff, who might be expected (not unreasonably) to station themselves at the front of the house. Instead, they’re practically cloistered from view, so far removed from the entrance that all diners must nimbly navigate themselves, un-ushered, past a dusky terrace of Parisian café tables oriented to face the sidewalk, just to get noticed and to have their application assessed. Those who’ve just popped in without a reservation should prepare for purgatory (but what a luxurious purgatory it is: Customers fidget on purposely distressed leather sofas while they anxiously await...