Dan Baum

@danielsbaum

Author of Gun Guys: A Road Trip & Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans

Boulder, CO
Joined February 2009

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  1. French fondness for buying local is a healthy reaction to the crisis and keeps the French car biz alive.

  2. The French drive French cars! How do they find parts?

  3. Dan Baum followed , and
  4. McDonald's France is as much about the hipness of English as it is about the food, price, or speed.

  5. Alternative Press: "8 French bands you need to know." They actually list 10, all but four with English names.

  6. Big surprise is that in France, McDonald's isn't cheap. 7.40€ for a Big Mac is $10. Even in France, that's a lot.

  7. How did McDonald's manage to wiggle its way into the land of haute cuisine? A great story: We'll tell it tomorrow.

  8. MangerBouger means, "eat/move." "Let's Move" is enough for Michelle Obama, but France can't delete the "eat."

  9. In French ads, the disorientation created by a word or two of English is considered hip, racy, and au courant.

  10. The French mystery that is advertised as "Double Shiny Bacon."

  11. Know someone who you wish understood the attraction to firearms? Gun Guys is now in paperback. Stocking stuffer!

  12. At this spot, reads the plaque, a bunch of civilians stopped and held a column of German tanks. Eight died.

  13. We love the way France wears its history on its face.

  14. Chicken w/ wild mushrooms and fresh fennel, pan de-glazed with Calvados and artisanal unpasteurized creme fraiche.

  15. Beef Hock braised for eight hours at 120 degrees in red wine, garlic, tomatoes, and a fresh rosemary sprig.

  16. Gun Guys made the Kirkus list of 2014's best books. Minneapolis Star-Tribune, too. Paperback appears tomorrow.

  17. French butter is so good that some days, all I want is an hour alone with 250 grams of it and a baguette.

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