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The Zeitgeist and The Pyrenees
“You don’t have to be too ardent a Francophile to see that thinking about the table and its rituals means thinking about France,” Adam Gopnik wrote in The Table Comes First, a book where he explores and worries about the contours of French food. Thing is, for most of us these days, thinking about the table and its rituals m…