France and Asia Fall in Love Again - The Moment Blog - NYTimes.com
Food October 2, 2009, 2:43 pm For the Moment | France and Asia Fall in Love Again By Alexander Lobrano Guilo-GuiloMeg Zimbeck Guilo-Guilo, one of the several Parisian restaurants with a talented Japanese chef. This week, the Paris food writer Alexander Lobrano, the author of “Hungry for Paris” and the European correspondent for Gourmet, joins the T table to share his thoughts (and tips) on dining. Read his previous posts here. In Paris, this is the season of wasabi, matcha and yuzu. If many countries are having a major influence on contemporary French cooking, including Morocco, Italy, Spain and even the United States (check out Frenchie, where you’ll easily detect the tasty influence of a stint at New York’s Gramercy Tavern on the talented young chef Gregory Marchand, or Rice & Fish, where some boys from San Francisco are seducing Parisians with California-style sushi), young French chefs are completely besotted with Asia.
