Steve from Mendocino – Paris
In 1978 I put my newly minted MBA in a drawer and took several months to flesh out my non-business education. This included two months at Anne-Marie’s parents’ apartment in the suburbs of Paris.
I commuted on this train to the Cordon Bleu cooking school 6 days a week for courses in both general cooking and pastry. Sundays I spent cooking fancy meals for various members of the family. Anne-Marie’s father had been stationed in Chelles, a blue collar suburb, for two years as a shipping clerk. The demographic of Chelles included a fair percentage of north African and middle eastern immigrants, and I was told about a family who filled their bathtub with dirt and grew vegetables. The French have a long history of racism that waxes and wanes just like our own.
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