Unlike her father, who marinated his beef in wine for up to 48 hours, Ms. Escoffier said she skips the soak but slow-simmers for longer than her father did.

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Alemany professes a "sweet spot" for the entrepreneurs and family businesses not unlike the one her father ran.

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Unlike Mr Sarkozy, she did grow up with her father present, in a family of eight children in the Vosges in eastern France.

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