Montreal is the only city in a gourmet network that started up in France; the summer beer festival launches what's to be an annual winter event focusing on the beers of one country, the initial outing being Italian beers, not an obvious choice; some Americans drive to Montreal for lunch; plans for a tenth-anniversary of the commando-bouffe incident and news that teachers hold back on setting exams at the end of the month because that's when the poorer kids are likely to be hungriest, a sad reflection on the persistence of poverty in our affluent society.
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