The Power of Good Food The French understand food and know the power of a good meal to raise the spirits or a bad one to set you in a foul mood. When my colleague Phil and I arrived at the factory we’d gone to visit in Chanteloup-en-Brie, our local colleague asked how our hotel had been. We weren’t sure where to start. Should we tell him about how we’d been completely ignored by the staff, how the restaurant refused to serve us or how we’d been shouted at by over-friendly drunk Danes? Recognising that he’d recommended a hotel he’d never been in himself, he was clearly feeling guilty. He took ...
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