In the heart of New York City at L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon, chef of the century Joel Robuchon playfully converts an ordinary burger into an extraordinary meal with beef and foie gras burgers with caramelized bell peppers which he also serves at his Las Vegas location.

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He said Castell Howell has around forty suppliers of frozen ready meal products containing beef.

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On a recent night, Marieme, Zeina, a son and a granddaughter sat on a mat on the living room floor and shared a meal of cooked beef and salad, which they ate with their hands, as is customary in Mauritania and some other parts of Africa.

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Keen to smooth tensions over the euro zone crisis when Hollande and Merkel met this month to mark 50 years of Franco-German reconciliation, French chefs chose to reproduce the famous meal of filet of beef and raspberry macaroons prepared in 1962 for post-war leaders Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer when they signed their friendship treaty.

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