It's a throwaway line, but I take issue at the idea that you can't get vegetarian meals in a tiny French village. Any traditional culinary setup is going to hav

It's a throwaway line, but I take issue at the idea that you can't get vegetarian meals in a tiny French village. Any traditional culinary setup is going to have at least a plurality of vegetarian options due to meat not always having been affordable and people experimenting with what they have. It's only when you weaken the link between food and cultural history that you end up with a lopsided menu (or maybe you are in a specific situation such as surviving on mostly seal blubber for generations), so you're paradoxically more likely to run into vegetarian problems in modern restaurants as described in the article than in a place with traditional cooking.