[with non-pork alternatives that will disappear from November]. Tuesday 13 October Starter: Pork liver mousse and cornichon pickle [or chicken pâté] with navette (Marseille orange-flower biscuit) Main course: Organic blanquette de veau (veal stew), rice Dessert: Organic apple Thursday 15 October Starter: Potted salmon and Swedish bread Main course: Roast pork [or turkey ham], peas and…
When Aïcha Tabbakhe, a French nurse, went to fill out the forms for her children’s school dinners in her small town outside Paris, she was puzzled. The box she would usually tick to say that her Muslim children didn’t eat pork wasn’t there. “Confused, I called the town hall and I was bluntly told: ‘From…
A week following the announcement by defense minister Jean-Yves Le Drian of air strikes during the night of October 8-9 of an Islamic State camp near Raqqa, the official account remains under scrutiny. According to defense minister, the training camp was considered a threat to France and Europe and housed “foreign fighters, many of who…
