Gilles Pudlowskiis the restaurant critic and journalist for the French weekly magazineLe Point; a contributor toSaveursandBon Voyagemagazines; a cultural commentator and critic; a historian of French regional culinary traditions; and the author of two cookbooks,France the Beautiful CookbookandGreat Women Chefs of Europe. Simon Beavergrew up in the south of England but moved to Paris nearly thirty years ago. For two and a half decades, he has been adapting books, TV and movie scripts, songs, and biographies into English, and writing subtitles and recording voice-overs.