In America, if you want real French cuisine, you need to be wealthy. I'm not talking about French fries or morning cruisants. I'm talking about the real thing. What we need over here is a "slow food" French franchise that would allow everyone to participate in the tastes of France. So where are you? Come and make a million with a "slow food" French food chain so that we can all enjoy its fruits.
If you are a poor man today in America, all you have going for you is McDonalds. We need help.
People getting tired of McDonalds is like someone getting tired of crack. It just doesn't work that way.
(</snark> - we eat at McDo too, and have a heavily industrialised agri-business ourselves) In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
France, the country which specifically revolted for the poor, can do better. Besides, as you know, Americans are supposed to hate the French for wisely staying out of Iraq. The French government should really be considering at this time a diplomatic effort to regain the historical love we have always had for France, who made our own revolution possible.
A government sponsored restaurant chain with a Statute of Liberty at the door is just the thing. Somebody propose this to Sarkosy. He's crazy enough to buy into it.
Plus, the French eat Mickey-D's, too. Quite a bit, actually, as I understand it. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Do I have to go to NOLA or NYC to eat French? And who will pay for the plane tickets?
I've eaten at wonderful (bistro-level) restaurants in rural New Mexico and horrible, highly praised "haute cuisine" -- more like 'haunted' by ghosts of flavors past cuisine -- in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. If they care, good food results. Without care, not.
A mile away was an excellent Thai restaurant that was very similar in nature, owned by Thai immigrants and with cuisine similarly adapted to California sensibilities. There were excellent Vietnamese Pho resturants within 3 miles of the house along with other "fusion" resturants. Here in Mountain Home, AR we had one good Mexican family restaurant that was destroyed by a tornado in February. There remain a presentable upscale, overpriced chain resturant and others, who are run by those of appropriate national origins but who seem unable to properly prepare or present their menus. Typical Southern fare is about two steps down from that which made English cuisine an oxymoron until recently. As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
Thus the restaurants and Brasseries in the Paris business districts, as well as in purely residential areas, are usually excellent, because they cannot afford to lose the local clientele. The touristy places are more uneven. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Then it was "discovered" --- whimper
Busloads, literally, of customers arriving hourly destroyed the place.
some things don't scale up easy... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
A long simmering soup with fresh stuff thrown into the pot on a regular basis. Served with freshly ground, hot-out-of-the-oven, bread slathered with Fresh (no salt, please) Butter. Toss in a bottle of the wine the cook added to the broth. Afterwards a light salad with fresh veggies, black oil-cured olives, topped with a wee tad of the local cheese and herbs; dressed with REAL (20 year+) aged Balsamic Vinegar and olive oil.
Completely simple. Absolutely divine.
If the food is balanced then I agree.
good thing i've had my evening 'spaghettata all'incazzata' or i'd be heading for the kitchen! ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
