Does Chicago Need More Fancy-Pants French Restaurants?
Yesterday I asked whether the world needs any more fancy-pants French restaurants. Today, our Chicago correspondent, Michael Nagrant, alerted me to his take on the issue, which appeared last year in Newcity Chicago:
Aren't [Alain] Ducasse and [Joël] Robuchon culinary carpetbaggers taking advantage of our Midwestern hospitality and standing upon the labor of our pioneers? Despite our success, the Tribune's Good Eating section still features a syndicated column from Wolfgang Puck. Hasn't Charlie Trotter or Paul Kahan at Blackbird earned a voice in our local pages? Legends, especially French demigods, cast long shadows, ones that may shroud our own identity.
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