From escargots to le Big Mac: how the land of haute cuisine fell for fast food

The rise of the burger (albeit often posh) is changing old dining habits. But MPs fear for France's healthFrench food: so good that the wise heads at Unesco declared it part of the world's intangible cultural heritage, so celebrated that the love of it defined a nation."Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are," as the original foodie, the gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, put it in 1825. And he was somebody who undoubtedly knew his lentilles vertes du puy et caviar from his langoustines a la nage and his poulette du perche from his poitrine de grive. Continue reading...