Pierre Leclercq, the Belgian Who Dared to Reveal that the Origin of the Fries Was French

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Historian of gastronomy, Liégeois likes to decorate the culinary myths, even to deconstruct them. Like the one on the beginnings of the frieSa madeleine de Proust? Attached to the Café des Minimes, in the Brussels district of the Marolles, Pierre Leclercq has the eye that fries. "The pig's foot in jelly! You will find this strange, but that's what I always asked for for my four hours when I was little!" We will not allow ourselves to judge. Pier…