From: "Frank Haber" 

I'm also not much of a fan of ferret brains in nut and plum sauce on a huge
plate with dribbles.  I'll still take nouvelle over the over-rich
Escoffier-in-decline stuff that joints with stars gave you before Bocuse. 
I had the luck to be taken to Pavillion and Brussels in NYC before the
Lutece era (relatives).  Too heavy.

Now that everyone knows freshness, and local ingredients, things are better
and less artificial, IMHO.  Even if you have to settle for
shrimp-from-a-farm-that-pollutes-all-of-Costa-Rica, or
mesclun-picked-year-round-by-some-abused-migrant, you have a better
standard of comparison in your head.

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