Cafe Jean Pierre – Albuquerque, New Mexico (CLOSED)
A few years ago when France was the target of xenophobic sentiment and some political commentators even advocated boycotting all things French, my vivacious friend Janet Resnik remained a fervent Francophile. With the simple retort, “ah, but the food,” she found it easy to diffuse dour diatribes in which not a single good thing was said about France. Not even the most ardent anti-French could argue that French food isn’t among the very best in the world. In Albuquerque, chef Jean-Pierre Gozard has been more instrumental than anyone in providing fine French alternatives to the ubiquitous chile laden cuisine that seems to define the city. Chef Gozard started it all in 1975 with the launch of La Crepe Michel, a…