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To: Sig who wrote (73680)	2/13/2003 11:22:15 PM
From: FaultLine	Respond to of 281500

put it in a chopper and drop it on Paris if they wanted actually, they might eat it... --fl@considerthehorse.com Global Business Basics Business travel can mean daunting dining. By Terri Morrison and Wayne A. Conaway "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826), author of Physiology of Taste In virtually all cultures, business relationships are enhanced by people breaking bread together. Time-pressed North Americans are likely to discuss business at any meal -- breakfast, lunch, or dinner. In other cultures, talk about business may be acceptable at some meals but avoided at others. (South Americans, for example, usually keep dinner a social occasion). But, whether a culture's preferred business meal is a brunch, a banquet, or a barbecue, dining is an integral part of doing business. The globe-trotting executive should expect to dine often with foreign clients. This leads to the problem of cross-cultural food preferences. We've all heard the aphorism "One man's meat is another man's poison." This may not be literally true (except in the case of food allergies), but it is correct in essence. What one culture finds delectable another may find disgusting. Consider the horse. Many Europeans -- especially the French and the Belgians -- eat horse meat. Although meat eaters generally find horse meat tasty, many U.S. citizens refuse to eat it. In the history of the United States, the horse was too valuable to eat. Americans depended on the horse to push back the frontier. Furthermore, the United States had plenty of land to raise other meat animals, such as cattle and pigs. As a result, the horse entered the American mythos as a noble animal, not to be eaten. Europe, on the other hand, was awash in surplus horses every time large armies demobilized. European horse meat consumption peaked after World War I, probably because modern armies have little use for horses. industryweek.com