French dinner table – now a UN heritage site
9:23am GMT, Wednesday, 17 November 2010
The ritual of the long and detailed French meal was yesterday declared part of the world’s official, cultural heritage. A committee of the UN cultural organisation, Unesco, decided that the French mealtime tradition, and the place of food in French history and society, should be included in its list of the “intangible” jewels of mankind.
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