let s do this. ah, paris. it s hard not to fall in love. when i first visited this city, i was 26 years old. i was studying for the master sommelier exam and had a decade of cooking classic cuisine under my belt. like so many before me, i came here with a romantic notion of what i would find, and paris didn t let me down. i ate and drank my way through the city. the river seine, the louvre, the champ-elysees and the eiffel tower. tick-tock, tick-tock paris saul of that, but it s also so much more. coming back again and again over the years, i ve discovered that what it means to be parisian is actually deeply complex. i ve started exploring beyond the center to the outskirts of this great city, to the suburbs. or as they say in french, the banlieue.
ah, paris. it s hard not to fall in love. when i first visited this city, i was 26 years old. i was studying for the master sommelier exam and had a decade of cooking classic cuisine under my belt. like so many before me, i came here with a romantic notion of what i would find, and paris didn t let me down. i ate and drank my way through the city. the river seine, the louvre, the champ-elysees and the eiffel tower. tick-tock, tick-tock paris saul of that, but it s also so much more. coming back again and again over the years, i ve discovered that what it means to be parisian is actually deeply complex. i ve started exploring beyond the center to the outskirts of this great city, to the suburbs. or as they say in french, the banlieue. some of the most exciting art, music, culture and food is actually coming from here.
in a very traditional kitchen on the champ-elysees, he is not from the center of paris. he comes from the banlieue and was raised in a social housing project before moving to the city center at age 25. it s interesting. it s when you have a love for great wine and great food, ultimately, i speak some french, but you almost don t need to speak the language you. sort of get it. there is a look and a nod. and to me that s almost unique to what we do, that you can
protesters are still blocking access for the bridge used to transport hundreds of millions of dollars of goods. i m unvaccinated. i can t even eat in that mcdonald s. reporter: hundreds of demonstrators including truck drivers are protesting vaccine mandates. after a friday night court order for protesters to disband, today police moved in. . . . . the busst land crossing in north america shut for nearly a week trade was disrupted. it seems like this show of force was exactly what leaders on both sides of the border wanted. even though police have pushed them back, protesters here are still declaring victory. it s gone global, so actually we represent a peaceful movement globally. reporter: in paris a copycat demonstration led to a more forceful response. police deployed tear gas and removed protesters blocking traffic on the champ elysees. [ crowd chanting ] reporter: canadian demonstrators say the u.s. should peep for similar scenes.