Ian Hoare > wrote:

> Actually, if many in France didn't set France up as being the
> example of good taste and excellence in everything, denigrating
> most other countries, I'd be less scathing. But they do,
> especially in matters of food and wine, so often without having
> tasted the food and wine they feel so free to criticise, while
> at the same time debasing their own taste more and more. It
> breaks my heart sometimes, Michael.

I'm fully with you, Ian, <sigh>.

M.