Sarkozy Turns It Into an Halal-Kiri Election
France without gastronomy would be France diminished so no surprise that the presidential election campaign seems to be taking some meatier aspects of food seriously, even though voter concerns are elsewhere. (Read more French News here) Showing increasing relish for a spicy election menu the combative maitre’d, Nicolas Sarkozy has, in the process of making a campaign meal out of [...]
Cafés Wastefully ‘Warm Sparrows in Winter’
Some 6000 Parisian café owners are on a heated collision course with Paris City Hall over plans to ban (butane-fired) patio gas heaters. The patio heaters are used outdoors by sidewalk cafés to warm their winter customers – many of whom are hardened nicotine addicts who also claim the right to coffee and a newspaper [...]
