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saying how far it is to get to Vierzon, or wherever.
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And, so, this is part of this elaboration,
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that keeps food and drink in people's assessment of
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the French and the French of their assessment of themselves.
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And regional identity has, to an extent it's disappearing
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--more about that in a tirade sometime, but not now,
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because we're out of time.
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But one can even argue that
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whether Michelin with its regional guides,
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and with the guides to restaurants, and Gault Millau,
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and the other guides have not kept alive
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in some useful way a sense of what