Parisian tables are turned upside-down and parasites go on a diet. Meanwhile, bunnies start turning into rabbits, and young partridges and hares become adults. But we don't stop them in their growth.
Premature enjoyment is always, in every way, imperfect enjoyment.
Let us allow these nice animals to live in our fields and forests while we wait for them to decorate our tables. We will always know where to find them, for nothing escapes the industrial activity of man. And here we are, two centuries later, confined to following the fast that this father of gastronomic critics prescribed. But now, the reasons behind it are more geo-political. Just out of the listeriosis affair that harmed both French cheese and French pride, France is now hiding in the shadow that Coke-guzzling Uncle Sam has cast on Belgium.