Talking to the architect Lindy Roy about projects from Manhattan’s Meat Packing district to Botswana’s Okavango river delta & how not to make another boring boutique hotel.
With the Michelin Guide Rouge heading to New York, I fly to Paris to talk with the head of the guides and enjoy an obscenely expensive lunch at Taillevent with entertaining rogue ex-Michelin inspector Pascal Remy.
I don’t really approve of the word “foodie” in the title. But I do approve of being paid to race across France with my pal D. Leary using the Tour as our rough guide and Waverly Root’s The Food of France as inspiration. Including: lunch at Michel Bras; an attempt to bike up the Alpe d’Huez; squab cooked in a pig’s bladder; with meals and bathroom breaks in Perigord, Auvergne, Languedoc, Provence, Savoie, Burgundy & Paris.