In Paris, Everyone Wants a Burger

The French are mad about juicy beef patties on sesame-seed buns, and restaurants all over the City of Light are offering Gallic translations of the ultimate all-American meal, writes Jane Sigal in the International Herald Tribune.

Think wagyu beef with a “black ketchup” of blackberries and black currants; a Cheddar cheeseburger with pine nuts and thyme mixed into the meat; or seasonings of cornichons and fleur de sel.

One restaurant, L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon, offers “Le Burger,” which is actually two small burgers topped by slabs of foie gras.

“It is a startling turnaround in a country where a chef once sued McDonald’s for $2.7 million in damages over a poster that suggested he was dreaming of a Big Mac,” Sigal writes.

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