When French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni chowed down at Ben's Chili Bowl earlier this week, they broke with the French tradition of traveling with a personal chef, WWD reports. It seems that past French leaders have had more discerning palates:
Consider late French President François Mitterrand, who enjoyed a very special delicacy: a small songbird called the ortolan, drowned in Armagnac, then flambéed and eaten whole. Or what about Jacques Chirac, famed for his fondness for cooked veal head?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/02/carla-bruni-eats-well-but_n_522977.html
