I said about Bocuse that I had been to his restaurant many times and that he has never been there and that like Buckingham Palace they should fly a flag over the restaurant when he was in like they do when the Queen is in residence over there. We began arguing on the subject of restaurant criticism and restaurant critics. They translated because my French isn’t good enough to deal with a situation like that or anything in fact other than a menu. They got an eye mask with a little lace ruffle on the back that looked like it was made from a whore’s nightgown and thus disguised I went on the television in France wired up and down all over simultaneously. They made for me a ridiculous blonde wig with bangs that looked like it was made of broom straw. So was one of the Troisgros brothers, Andre Daguin, a woman chef from Lyon… and they asked me to be on…I said I would not be on the program unless I could be masked because they didn’t know what I looked like and that I would probably be back some day. They took a different subject and they had a table full of experts supposedly having dinner when my story came out. There was a TV program in Paris at that time called, “Dossier de L’Ecran’. My review of the 3 star restaurants … many of which I didn’t like created such a furor in France.
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