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because people say that's progress
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and lots about rural France, a lot of villages that do survive,
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survive because they're what you call villages-dortoirs, or they're sort of bedroom villages
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for people who work in towns nearby.
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But lots of France, lots of rural France really only
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exists now because of tourism, and that doesn't make it in itself--
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it's important that people survive in some way,
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but that doesn't provide these places with a kind of vitality.
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And how ironic would it be if the Guide Michelin, the Green
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Guides for every region,
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if those are one of the sole ways,
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in the long run, along with cuisine, traditions of cuisine,