September 2009
12 posts
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Fancy French Restaurants Serve Up Economy Meals:... →
If Paris is a moveable feast, it’s becoming a more affordable one, thanks to the economic slowdown.
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A Warning on Climate Change - The Pour Blog -... →
Climate change poses a critical threat to French wine regions, and Burgundy in particular, according to a new report from the environmental organization Greenpeace.
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Wines of The Times - Wine Tasting - The Languedoc... →
For years, I’ve heard talk about the transformation of the Languedoc, a region that for so long was best known for supplying the rest of France with cheap red wine that only occasionally rose to the level of mediocre. As the French began to consume less wine, and the competition for the inexpensive market has grown, Languedoc has had to undergo a painful evolution that is far from complete.
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Paris Kitchens Go Local - TIME →
The ranks of the locavore movement, which promotes the use of locally grown produce, have been swollen in recent years by green chefs hoping to reduce their carbon footprints. But in famously gastronomic France, the trend has been surprisingly slow to catch on. In Paris, where restaurant menus boast langoustine from Madagascar and caviar from Iran, few gourmets imagine it possible to compose a...
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A ‘French Chef’ Whose Appeal Doesn’t Translate -... →
Julia Child may have been America’s best-known “French chef,” but here in Paris few know her fabled cookbooks, let alone her name.
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AFP: The manga that poured French wine into Asia →
Yuko and Shin Kibayashi, a fashionable sister-brother duo publishing under the pseudonym Tadashi Agi, created “Kami no Shizuki” (The Drops of God), a phenomenally successful manga series that has brought wine to subway commuters across Asia, and sparked a wine boom.
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How the bubbly burst - The Independent →
For years, champagne has defied the slump in other French wines and expanded its sales, especially in China and Russia but also in one of its oldest and biggest markets, Britain. But now the champagne bubble has burst. There are over one billion bottles of champagne – almost three years’ global supply – piled up in store.
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French government to help wine exports -... →
The French government is promising export guarantees to help France’s wine producers struggling to keep up sales abroad amid the economic downturn, the agriculture minister said Tuesday.
French food is past its sell-by-date - Telegraph →
Sacre bleu. Some ros boeuf has claimed that British restaurants are better than the French.
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“French vintners have to take more account of the habits of modern drinkers if...”
– French vintners need to adapt to modern tastes | Lifestyle | Reuters
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Antique Dung Is Secret Element Behind Lure of... →
In Burgundy, for instance, homemade compost mixtures based on cattle dung are handed down from father to son. One recipe, according to wine consultant and historian Clive Coates, calls for droppings to be stuffed inside a cow horn, buried in the earth on a special date and dug up on another before being diluted by 10 million parts of water and applied to the soil.