Gustavo Arellano’s dispatch from “America’s unofficial Chile Highway.” Cooking for Día de Muertos. In her Substack newsletter La Briffe, former L.A. Times restaurant critic Ruth Reichl reprinted an early La Petite Chaya menu that included “baked oyster with spicy sauce au gratin,” “a triple mousse treat: red bell pepper, fennel and artichoke” and “the Chaya specialty, our original fresh tuna …
French gastronome Nicolas Kenedi holds one of his book volumes Versailles: The Gastronomic Revolution during an interview in Beijing. Renowned French gastronome Nicolas Kenedi prompts us to ponder this question. Nicolas urged people to leave their phones alone and care more about their bodies by preparing nutritious meals themselves rather than relying on unhealthy delivery options. As a board member …
Speaking in Cameroon, French president asks historians to investigate the past and establish ‘responsibilities’. France’s President Emmanuel Macron has said the archives on French colonial rule in Cameroon would be opened “in full” and asked historians to shed light on the period’s “painful moments”. Former President Francois Hollande in 2015 conceded that France’s colonial past in Cameroon brought “tragic” moments …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a 90 minute one-on-one meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday evening at Elysée Palace, focusing on the consequences and solutions to the war in Ukraine rather than the respective positions of the two countries with the two leaders discussing ways to counter the deteriorating environment in the Indo-Pacific. The two leaders acknowledged the …
It took Mory Sacko just weeks to break into the illustrious circle of Michelin laureates with his audacious menu of African cuisine, refined with a smattering of French and Japanese twists. When reconfinement forced the closure of restaurants -- except for takeaway meals -- Sacko quickly looked for ways to turn challenges into opportunities by "revisiting the totems of street …