A Frenchmen's take on doing food in America . . .

I'm still at a loss as to where my camera has gone, so this is what I have for today:

I have a few blogs and one website I check in on, this is the website (though I'm usually at the Food section), and below is an excerpt from an interesting read during nap-time:

Before taking over the Citrus Étoile, in the Eighth Arrondissement, Mr. Epié ran the Los Angeles restaurant L’Orangerie for more than three years. He remembered with distaste the strictness of American health rules about food.

“My fish shop in Santa Monica smelled like a pharmacy” instead of like fresh fish, he said. “And when I asked for a three-month-old baby lamb, like you can find here, they thought I was crazy and nearly called the police.”