Chirac invited to taste Finnish and British cooking

French president Jacques Chirac was invited to taste British and Finnish cuisine by politicians from the two countries dubbed on Sunday (3 July) as the worst cooks in Europe by the Elysee palace gourmande.

Mr Chirac's remarks on the quality of food, overheard at last weekend's meeting with Moscow and Berlin in Kaliningrad, have a sparked a lively debate in the Uk and Finland.

"One cannot trust people whose cuisine is so bad", French daily Le Monde quoted him as saying in hushed...