Talking lunch

Robert Graham talks to Bernard Kouchner over lunch:

Kouchner co-founded Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) and more than 30 years later remains one of the most admired public figures in France...

With his plain talk and confident contrarianism, Kouchner stands out in a country where too many people in high places are non-committal to the point of being labelled langues du bois (wooden tongues). Even as a Socialist minister, Kouchner has rarely toed the party line. He has infuriated the French left by daring to endorse the military overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
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He has known Iraq since 1974 when he visited Kurdistan and saw the horrors Saddam Hussein was perpetrating on the Kurdish population. "Saddam was a monster. The case for going to war to get rid of him was not one of weapons of mass destruction - they probably weren't there anyway. It was a question of overthrowing an evil dictator and it was right to intervene."

The conversation is interesting more generally, and so, for those that way inclined - as I have to confess I am not - may be the lunch, whose progress and components are described blow by blow:

It's a cold Monday and we decide on a hearty soupe du potiron followed by magret de canard au miel.
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Our dessert, Charlotte au creme fraiche, arrives and looks so rich and enticing - a slim white triangular vessel in a sea of raspberry sauce - that it momentarily stops the conversation.

One for The Daily Bread? (Hat tip: Chris Bertram for the Kouchner link.)