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People don’t like French food as much as they used to because French restaurants are pretentiousIn the food world, one of the biggest stories of the last 50 years has been the waning of French culinary authority—the end of a 300-year reign. In the latest annual ranking of “The World’s Fifty Best Restaurants,” only one French restaurant, Mirazur, appeared in the top 10. And its menu reflects modernist (“molecular”) gastronomy—a recent trend of using chemistry in the kitchen—rather than anything associated with traditional French cuisine.
Updated July 21, 20227 min read