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The Observer Food Monthly

John Whiting

By John Whiting
in France: Dining

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John Whiting

John Whiting

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Fact checking in today's press is a lost art.

It's part of the profit-led penny-pinching of the Anglo-American media. Opinion is cheap, facts are expensive, and so we have more and more self-celebrating columnists and critics, fewer and fewer reporters and research staff.

John Whiting, London

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Vive la Révolution!

Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it." ALFRED JARRY

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I said that tongue in cheek in response to another post ... too subtle, maybe..

Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it." ALFRED JARRY

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I said that tongue in cheek in response to another post ... too subtle, maybe..

I didn't take it seriously. I just used the opportunity you presented to reproduce the graffiti I've seen a number of times in Paris "Vive le Roi".

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