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Heritage on a Plate 盘中的非物质遗产

Heritage on a Plate 盘中的非物质遗产

By Christian Fraser, BBC reporter, Paris

Heritage on a Plate 盘中的非物质遗产

The best cuisine in the world, according to France's president Nicolas Sarkozy

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Background: 法国大餐将被列入联合国教科文组织非物质文化遗产代表作名录。该名录现在已收录了213 项非物质文化遗产项目,其中包括中国针灸,京剧和哥伦比亚音乐等。

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France’s submission, which sits alongside Croatian gingerbread and Azerbaijani carpet, centres mostly around the ritual itself.

How wines are paired with dishes, how the table is dressed, the precise placing of glasses for water and wine, knife blade pointing in, fork curved towards the dish, all time-honoured rituals.

One jury member said there was no major reason why France should be rejected, not even president Sarkozy's untimely assertion that when it comes to cooking, the French are the best in the world, a statement that enraged the Italians and Spaniards with whom Greece and Mexico are bidding jointly for the honour of Mediterranean diet.

There are no specific French dishes or ingredients in this entry. It centres largely on the fact the French have a tendency to talk endlessly about their food.

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