The myriad smells are completely alluring - there’s the buttery scent of shallots being braised, the sweet smell of chicken being roasted and, from the patisserie kitchen below, the tantalising aroma of tarte tatin wafting up the stairs.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is asking the UN to award French cuisine Unesco humanity heritage status.
A parliamentary fact-finding [...]

Ihave been humbled by a six-year-old. The finest culinary education money can buy, 20 years of cooking all over the world, thousands of self-written recipes: all dumped down the drain by the toughest food critic I’ve ever met. My son, Gabe.
So I write recipes for a living, so what? Creative cooking doesn’t impress him [...]