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Good food, and innovations in food, follow the money. The money's not really in France. What ideas they had to contribute, other countries have now absorbed. Th
by vonnik 10y ago
Good food, and innovations in food, follow the money. The money's not really in France. What ideas they had to contribute, other countries have now absorbed. There is as much good food and wine to be had in the Bay area as there is to be eaten in Paris, if not more.
- riffraff 10y agoBut food culture, like all culture, takes a lot to build up. The US might have a lot of high quality restaurants, but it also has walmart selling a ton of kinds of "asiago", most of them spreadable. The fact that a movie like "supersize me" can be produced, is a symptom of a totally broken approach to food, not because eating pizza margherita and drinking wine for a month would be healthier than mcdonald's, but because any 10 year old would tell you it's idiotic to have a monotonous diet. (For the uninitiated, Asiago is a single kind of cheese with a couple minor variations produced in northern italy. It is very much non-spreadable.)