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On French cuisine's decline with Michael Steinberger
Notebook on Cities and Culture
English - September 20, 2009 16:57 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 124 ratingsPlaces & Travel Society & Culture Arts comedy business entrepreneurship interview culture news music finance fitness design Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Colin Marshall talks to longtime Slate wine columnist Michael Steinberger, author of Au Revoir to All That: Food, Wine and the End of France.
An ardent culinary Francophile in earlier decades, Steinberger has,
along with much of the rest of the food world, come to realize that a
malaise has fallen upon the cuisine that once led the world in taste,
artistry, experience and sophistication. Steinberger’s book chronicles
the history of French food, the recent developments that have forced it
to face tough competition from countries like Spain and the United
States and the importance of such things as the legality of lait cru cheese, the effects of viticultural subsidies and the fall of the once-almighty Michelin guide.