This fast food parlor occupies premises (at a corner of rue Soufflot and boulevard Saint-Michel) of a cafe A Capoulade where, in 1930-s, the founders of the Bourbaki group were meeting for work on their project, see a paper by Liliane Beaulieu, from which this contemporary photograph is taken:
To add insult to injury, the opposite corner site is held by MacDonald’s.
Nowadays, would it be possible to do mathematics in burger joint? Therefore, support Slow Food Movement!
miah said:
Did you “steal” that link (support slow food movement) from a colleague’s of yours in the maths department.
I always find it ironic when I see shops stocking nestle chocolate bars immediately next to fair trade chocolate bars.
Alexandre Borovik said:
Oh no, I honestly Googled for “fast food”.
By the way, there is a movement in Turkey with the aim to save real Turkish coffee, a coffee version of CAMRA.
miah said:
Your colleague Mike Prest has the same link on his webpage (under interests or miscellaneous).
Delete this post before he sees this!!!
Alexandre Borovik said:
I do not understand you. You appear to imply that association with Bourbaki damages reputation of the Slow Food Movement. But I have greatest respect to Bourbaki.
Topologie générale (in Russian translation) was adopted as a textbook in my University. It is not true that Bourbaki’s books are unsuitable to be used as textbooks; some of them are masterpieces of exposition (but some other, to say the truth, are unreadable). Chapter II, Structures uniformes, was a revelation.
beans said:
If it’s something to do with food, then I’m there!
Alexandre Borovik said:
Of course, it is about food. Good food, glorious food. Traditional food. From all natural, quality ingredients. Slowly cooked and eaten without haste. Or, on the contrary, almost untouched by cooking. Fish, for example, does not like to be overcooked or over-processed.