We will perhaps only retain from this political month of January a very small controversy around the preservation - or not - of our three major gastronomic sectors: cheese, meat, wine and a culinary tradition reduced to its daily and popular expression: rare steak, small glass of côtes-du-rhône, camembert, coffee and bill.
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It was January 9th.
The communist candidate Fabien Roussel was immediately called to order because he had confessed to liking "a good wine, a good meat, a good cheese", and that he had concluded this daring confession with a remark which was just as much: “It's French gastronomy.
“For the left, there was crossing the red line, perilous companionship with Éric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen.
The charm of the land
French gastronomy, obviously, rakes wider, brews wider, but its outline is made of these foods which are also agricultural sectors and lands passionately...
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