The moment she set down the dish on the table, I knew she had won. Even before the first bite, it was clear that through time and plenty of olive oil, the sum of my ex-girlfriend's ratatouille — a ...

"Ratatouille" is a funny word, staccato and dull pronounced in English — rat-a-too-ee. It takes on quite different imagery when pronounced in French — ra-ta-tooo-yuh, sounding more melodic and ...