Covert wrote:Celebrated chef Joel Robuchon of the new L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon was quoted in the NYT as saying, “Americans are much more open, with fewer fixations about what they would or would not eat than the French.”
Is this right? I guess he would know. That’s surprising to me.
I lived in Paris, Nice, and Juan-les-Pins during the '70's and all the French I knew were pretty omniverous ... to include tripe, brains, eel, roast pigeons with head and feet attached, knobby-surfaced beef tongue, blood sausage, etc.
As to my fellow expatriots, regardless of where I was living besides France, i.e. Germany, the Netherlands or Italy, they kind of ran the gamut from those whose sole oasis of comestibles in the desert of cryptic menu items was McDonald's to the others who, bottomfeeders like myself, simply said "ah," opened wide, and let whatever was on the menu in. I would, I guess, have to disagree with Mr. Robuchon. Où est le bœuf?