Figure out your bday gift

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Across
  1. 6. What happens when pots, pans, and maybe a little chaos collide
  2. 8. Where people sing arguments instead of shouting them
  3. 9. Martin Luther King had one. So do people during naps
  4. 12. What you tell after two glasses of wine — or what a book tells
  5. 13. In French cooking, it’s called the “chef’s language” — everything speaks through it
  6. 14. The language of love and cooking
  7. 16. A solo in opera — literally “air” in Italian
  8. 17. French for sparkly romantic things in the night sky
Down
  1. 1. It means “ribbon” in French, but when it’s blue it feeds chefs, not fashionistas
  2. 2. Something often missing in boiled British food
  3. 3. An elegant word for someone who loves fine food
  4. 4. In France, it’s the rarest steak. In kitchens, it’s the colour of a ribbon worth studying for
  5. 5. Chic people possess it, everyone else just attends it
  6. 7. Like an old black-and-white film, or spaghetti that never goes out of style
  7. 10. Where you go for bargains, veggies, or mulled wine depending on the season
  8. 11. The American who made French cooking famous — and was played by Meryl Streep
  9. 15. A fancy word for a nation’s style of food