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6. What happens when pots, pans, and maybe a little chaos collide
8. Where people sing arguments instead of shouting them
9. Martin Luther King had one. So do people during naps
12. What you tell after two glasses of wine — or what a book tells
13. In French cooking, it’s called the “chef’s language” — everything speaks through it
14. The language of love and cooking
16. A solo in opera — literally “air” in Italian
17. French for sparkly romantic things in the night sky

1. It means “ribbon” in French, but when it’s blue it feeds chefs, not fashionistas
2. Something often missing in boiled British food
3. An elegant word for someone who loves fine food
4. In France, it’s the rarest steak. In kitchens, it’s the colour of a ribbon worth studying for
5. Chic people possess it, everyone else just attends it
7. Like an old black-and-white film, or spaghetti that never goes out of style
10. Where you go for bargains, veggies, or mulled wine depending on the season
11. The American who made French cooking famous — and was played by Meryl Streep
15. A fancy word for a nation’s style of food