Victor Sack wrote:
>
> What has happened is that la cuisine française has been reduced to
> heirloom status, and the odd thing is that the French themselves have
> colluded in the process, led by President Nicolas Sarkozy, who in
> February announced his wish that it be listed for protection under
> Unesco's heritage scheme.

Hey, if French cuisine can't survive against the onslaught
of modern chefs with their extruded foams, precision
temperature-controlled water baths, and pressurized
deep-fryers, then it doesn't deserve to exist. It's
obsolete.

It's like sailboats. They are pretty, and some people
have fun sailing them, but they no longer hold any share
of transatlantic shipping trade. French cooking is like
that -- antiquarian and pretty, but serving no useful
purpose except nostalgia.

It's called evolution, pal. Get used to it!