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Chefs roam the globe for fun and research
Los Angeles TimesI remember the stories -- L.A. chefs renting fast cars and and doing a Michelin three-star restaurant blitz through France. Ten restaurants in five days. Wallowing in foie gras, truffles, baby lamb, Brittany lobsters and newborn vegetables. Not to mention...Tags: Bars and Clubs, Michelin Group, Santiago (Chile), Potatoes, France
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Counter Intelligence: Maison Giraud in Pacific Palisades
Los Angeles Times Restaurant CriticThe Santa Monica farmers market is more exotic. The Hollywood market is bigger and the new Altadena market more devoted to tiny organic farms. But the most charming place to buy vegetables in Los Angeles may be the Sunday morning market in the Pacific...Tags: French Toast, Garlic, Dining and Drinking, Lifestyle and Leisure, Pies and Tarts
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Jacqueline Piatigorsky dies at 100; chess champion, sculptor
Jacqueline Piatigorsky was born into the Rothschild banking clan and grew up in a palace in Paris, but her silver spoon came with a ball and shackles. She rarely left her sumptuous homes and was dominated by a callous nanny. She felt invisible to her...
Tags: Obituaries, Lifestyle and Leisure, Boris (music group), Game Playing, Chess Playing
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High-flying son of African president wanted by French authorities
World NowThe son of the autocratic president of Equatorial Guinea is wanted by French authorities investigating him for alleged corruption. Police have already confiscated 14 luxury cars belonging to Teodoro Obiang.... -
Marion Cunningham dies at 90; icon of American cooking
Marion Cunningham's crusade to preserve the nightly supper hour came of her concern that without it children would never learn table manners or the give and take of dinner conversation. Not only that, she worried that such traditional American dishes as...Tags: Walnuts, Customs and Tradition, John Muir, Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking
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French president apologizes for nation's role in WWII
World NowFrench president François Hollande made an emotional mea culpa on behalf of his country for its part in the roundup and deportation of more than 13,000 Jews from Paris, at a commemoration ceremony on Sunday.... -
Elliott Carter dies at 103; inventive American composer
Elliott Carter, the great American composer who was born in the horse-and-buggy era but whose music persistently looked ahead by reflecting and unabashedly celebrating the intricacies of modern life, died Monday of natural causes at his home in New York,...
Tags: Music Industry, Entertainment, Queens (New York City), Music, Peabody Conservatory
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Chris Marker dies at 91; avant-garde French filmmaker
Chris Marker, an enigmatic figure in French cinema who avoided publicity and was loath to screen his films yet was often ranked with countrymen Alain Resnais and Jean-Luc Godard as an avant-garde master, died at his home in Paris on Sunday, his 91st...
Tags: Ministry (music group), Brad Pitt, Entertainment, Salvador Allende, Music
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France's Hollande pledges order after rioting erupts
World NowFrench President Francois Hollande pledged Tuesday to use "all means" necessary to maintain public order after rioting erupted in northern France. The rioting by youths in Amiens, in a troubled urban area outside Paris, injured 16 police officers and left... -
Gae Aulenti dies at 84; architect designed Paris' Musee d'Orsay
Gae Aulenti, an Italian architect who attained international prominence turning old buildings into modern museums, including Paris' Musee d'Orsay and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, died Wednesday at her home in Milan. She was 84. Her family told...
Tags: Museums, Religion and Belief, Artists, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier
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Bank of France head urges tougher labor regulations
World NowThe head of the Bank of France has asked President François Hollande to enact tougher labor regulations to deal with France's “serious” economic weakness.... -
Rhum Agricole
LA Times MagazineA pilgrimage to Martinique finds cane consummated as a heavenly spirit made from freshly pressed sugarcane wine...
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