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  • A Hard Sell? Book Tells Americans How to Be French

    04/14/2003 6:29:10 PM PDT · by Nachum · 30 replies · 268+ views
    Reuters ^ | Mon April 14, 2003 10:23 AM ET | Reuters
    CHICAGO (Reuters) - It may be as ill-timed as opening a new storefront business in downtown Baghdad -- a book telling Americans how they too can be like the French. But its principal author, chef Robert Arbor, says his "Joie de Vivre: Simple French Style for Everyday Living" is "beyond politics" and will quench a thirst deeper than the current tempest in a demitasse. So does publisher Simon & Schuster, which says the timing may work in the book's favor -- offering closet Francophiles in the United States a guide to pursuing the politically incorrect in the privacy of their...