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...corner of Singapore's Regent Hotel, Iggy's doesn't exude the flash one would expect of the "Best Restaurant in Asia." But that is precisely the accolade bestowed upon it by the Miele Guide - a recently launched work of reference that aspires to be to Asia what the Michelin is to Europe. (See 10 things to do in Singapore...
...website of the Daily Mail, another British paper, oozed schadenfreude over Caspar's coup with the marathon headline "Ooh La La: France's Culinary Bible Michelin Guide Picks Woman As New Editor - and She's German...
...French press accounts that did appear stuck to Michelin's own rather laconic communiqué announcing the appointment of German executive Julianne Caspar as the editor-in-chief of the company's 108 year-old Guide Rouge. Sagely, the reports avoided any moaning about German cooking or foreign assaults on la grandeur de la France. "Why should the appointment of Ms Julianne Caspar, someone who is clearly a hugely qualified traditional French cuisine proponent ... shock the French?" asked Anglophone French blog franceblogcom. "This blog and its French members are happy to learn that a woman, a German, has been selected...
...this time, the Gallic Nation managed to shake off its tendency for self-doubt and nationalism. For now, French commentators are viewing Caspar's arrival at Michelin as a gain for French gastronomy at Germany's expense. "I'm as thrilled they've finally named a woman as I am disinterested in her nationality - which in a globalized world where only competence counts means nothing," famed chef Alain Senderens told TIME. Adds Laurent Mariotte, a food expert who hosts cooking programs on radio's France Info and television's TF1: "French cuisine has recently begun shedding it's reputation...
...anyway, there's another reason to choke off all the sardonic snorts: Caspar isn't the first foreigner to head the Michelin guide. That distinction went to Englishman Derrick Brown in 2000, an appointment that caused outrage in France and delight in Britain. France seems to have moved on since then. It's less sure the same can be said for its neighbors...