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Sat 07 Jul 2007Vive la FranceIn honour of Bastille Day, Catherine Clearycooks up an easy, crowd-friendly feast of Gallic favouritesClichéd cultural stereotype or not, there is something beguiling about the typical French attitude to food. Instead of the halo of guilt or anxiety that we sometimes bring to the table, food in France seems to be about contentment and conviviality. We return from holidays there remembering simple meals of warm hunks of fresh bread with good local cheese or robust paté polished off with a bowl of luscious cherries leaking claret-dark dribbles down happy chins.