PARIS (Reuters) - The pronounce-ments of France's mighty food guides have always been able to make or break a restau-rant in this food-obsessed country.

在法国这个追求美食的国度,数家极有影响力的食品指南一直具有可以成就一个餐厅或毁掉一个餐厅的力量。

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Those tourists, too, had less fun than they let on: they grumbled about the food, their rapacious guides and the discomforts of travel.

那些旅游客，同样，对这些东西知之甚少，并总是不断地抱怨食物难吃，导游贪婪，以及旅行的各种不舒适。

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Elaborates Time Zagat, publisher of the Zagat restaurant guides,... "the food doesn't have to be all that good, as long as it doesn't poison you."

《扎加特餐厅指南》发行人扎加特解释说：“食物没必要太好，只要不毒死你就可以了。”

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In Totnes, Transition have created local food guides, formed a sustainable building company, given talks and lectures to landowners and local government officials to show them how peak oil and climate change affect their management decisions.

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Close to Taumarunui, a small town in the south of the region, chef and Maori food expert Charles Royal guides a battered 4x4 along a dirt track.

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Von Hirsch and her Greece-based partner, Evi Aidonopoulou, handle guest requests: filling each room with specific flowers, arranging a birthday cake or a boat to dinner on Mykonos, flying in food, finding the perfect guides, drivers, butlers--you get the idea.

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