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5 (Languedoc-Roussillon) Things

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1) Heading out of the village 2) Canal boats 3) View toward the Pyrénées 4) Leda and the swan fountain 5) Terrace view

5 Things

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1) Lunch in le jardin 2) noire et blanche 3) Saying au revoir to chèvre until next spring 4) Painted by mother nature 5) Coffee drinking and people watching

Will BBQ And Brownies Kill Off French Cuisine?

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Some of the negative comments on social media about the recent opening of a Texas BBQ joint in Paris by a Frenchman got me thinking... As an expat in France who loves to cook and eat, appreciates everything food related and has been watching the culinary scene in France evolve over the last decade, I've noticed that in recent years there seem to be a lot of expats getting their knickers in a twist over foreigners ( e.g. Anglophones who have moved to France and/or French people who have traveled to (mainly) Anglophone countries and have returned to France ) opening restaurants or BBQ joints or coffee places that said expats deem to be not "French"   enough and will, in their opinion, cause the eventual demise of French cuisine. Strangely though, if it's a new sushi place, a Mexican restaurant, a Korean joint, an Indian resto or a falafel place, then that's perfectly fine. But put the words "hot dog," "BBQ" or "fish & chips" on the