The president of France, Jaques Chirac has good-naturedly retracting his recent comments regarding British cuisine. From the Sunday Mail:
That was in stark contrast to remarks he made last week to Schroeder and Putin.Chirac said to them of British food at a separate summit: 'You can't trust people who cook as badly as that. After Finland, it's the country with the worst food.'
He was also picked up on microphone saying Britain's only contribution to European agriculture had been mad cow disease.
While attending the G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, Chirac joined other world leaders in a feast of Scottish smoked salmon, lamb and caviar. After taking a lot of guff from the other leaders, he apparently sent for 41 year old executive chef Andrew Fairlie and offered his compliments on the meal, saying "Your food was fantistic."
I would have offered an amusé bouche of crow tartare, myself...
