Simply put food is an obsession with the French and we should be forever grateful for that.
When you talk about food and wine, it goes without saying that the French appear to have written the book on these areas. They gave the world champagne and Beaujolais, Roquefort and Camembert, to name but a few classic delights. Yet these few examples, are merely offerings on the great alter of food apreciation, the actual eating!